May 2013
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Over at Bloom, Dr. Francine Toder—a retired... →
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“So the Romans, like us, had a primary relationship between the body and the idea...”
– This article on swearing is really goddamned interesting.
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“There are lots of conversations in the world about writing which focus on the...”
– Edan Lepucki, “The Chemistry between Fiction and Reality: The Millions Interviews Ramona Ausubel”
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“Here’s how funny it is: It’s funnier than A Confederacy of Dunces. It’s funnier...”
– Nothing Funnier Than Unhappiness: A Necessarily Ill-Informed Argument for Flann O’Brien’s The Poor Mouth as the Funniest Book Ever Written by Mark O’Connell
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ICYMI: Brad Listi interviewed Benjamin Percy as... →
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“There may be readers who will — on discovering that A Questionable Shape...”
– Susan Hazen-Hammond, “At the Frontiers of the Unsayable: Bennett Sims’s A Questionable Shape”
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New Releases This Week
New this week: And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini; The Redeemer, a new Harry Hole novel from Jo Nesbø (see our interview); and Abigail Tarttelin’s debut novel Golden Boy. Also out: The Fall of Arthur, J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic poem, and George Packer’s The Unwinding.
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Lindsay King-Miller -- she of Ask A Queer Chick --... →
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“Mr. Fogg assured us he would touch down at our place at precisely 8:45 in the...”
– Introducing literary couchsurfing.
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Imaginadium: Challenging 'It's not as good as the... →
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We’ve all had Gatsby fever for months. It seems eons since another film has been so highly anticipated, making the news that Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby may not be so great all the more disappointing. Adapting a novel so dearly loved by so many is a dangerous sport. Walter Salles’ recent…
Did Baz Lurhmann’s Great Gatsby adaptation leave you feeling a little disappointed?...
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Longreads: Students, Professors: We Want Your Best... →
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Throughout May and June, a new generation of reporters, writers, editors, and essayists make their way out of school and into the professional world. They come bearing clips, work samples produced for class or during an internship. Hundreds of media outlets at colleges and universities across…
The Longreads team has teamed up with Syracuse assistant professor Aileen...
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Selected Shorts: What Would You Do? (Feat. David... →
Recommended Listening: David Sedaris presented three short stories while guest hosting WNYC’s Selected Shorts. The three stories were written by Amy Hempel, Tobias Wolff, and Frank Gannon, and each one has to do with “hard choices,” says Sedaris.
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“What [Vladimir] Nabokov is actually doing in Lolita is deliberately drawing on...”
– Is Humbert Humbert Jewish? by Mark Ford
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“I spoke to Poggioli about you, at Harvard. He would like to have you there for...”
– To prepare us for the release of Italo Calvino’s letters, the editors at Page-Turner are running excerpts from the book. In their latest installment — following their first two — Calvino describes New York City, which “swallowed [him] up like a carnivorous plant.”
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Sorry, writers: turns out loneliness can kill you. →
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“You might think, then, that the people who know Fitzgerald’s novel best would...”
– Kevin Hartnett, “Judging Luhrmann’s Gatsby: Five English Scholars Weigh In”
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“I am consistently drawn in, and consistently disappointed, by bio-novels about...”
– The Museum of Unhappy Women by Janet Potter 