March 2012
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Hey, Did You Like Any of These Articles?
The Millions: Embracing The Other I Am; or, How Walt Whitman Saved My Life
The Millions: Every Day I Open a Book
The Millions: Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française, and The Mirador
The Millions: Living Out the Day: The Moviegoer Turns Fifty
The Millions: Sailing on the Open Sea: John Updike’s Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism
The Millions: Scared Straight: Writers and The New Happiness
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“All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about...”
– Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review
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February 2012
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The Monkees, "Daydream Believer" →
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“There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it;...”
– Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review
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“Yeah, well I have a sense of it now.
There’s the fact that you’re interviewing...”
– Clarissa Explains It All’s creator Mitchell Kriegman, replying to a question asked in this Splitsider interview of how he interacts with young people today “who grew up on the show.”
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PULPHEAD NOTES: An Event with Geoff Dyer in New... →
johnjeremiahsullivan:
On Friday March 9th, John Jeremiah Sullivan and Geoff Dyer will be in conversation at 192 Books. Here’s Dyer from a recent interview in Bookforum:
Failure is quite interesting, and it’s something I have a certain amount of experience with. I wasn’t a failure in the way lots of people are…
This should be done. By all. Nick will be there, and he’d love to...
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Tuesday New Release Day
NEW! Edugyan on music, race, love and loyalty; D’Agata on truth, veracity, and storytelling; Manguso’s elegy for a friend; Ullman with a psychological thriller; Hebert on defining oneself against the backdrop of revolution; a release date for Shadid’s final memoir; and, for all you baseball fans, the 2012 Baseball Prospectus!
Here’s the complete rundown.
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Works of Fiction Set in 2012 →
(h/t Berfois)
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So even the arguments presented in THE LIFESPAN OF... →
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“Five years after the debut of his first novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar...”
– Junot Diaz is publishing a new book of short stories. (via libraryjournal)
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“At the age of twenty [Charlotte Brontë] wrote to the Poet Laureate, Robert...”
– The Beginning of the Brontës by Margot Livesey
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We Made a Storify of the Responses We Got to Our... →
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“He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.”
– Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again
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#BooksRedCarpet →
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Best of #WriteSpace Vol. 4: The Deskless
Truman Capote once called himself “a completely horizontal author.” He worked from his bed, like our own Michael Bourne, or from the couch, like Lydia Kiesling and yrs. truly, and far be it from me to mess with his method, even if some of these #writespace entries are giving me a severe case of desk envy.
Though we didn’t receive many bedroom #writespace tweets or tumbls, there...
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“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
– Edith Wharton, The Touchstone. Want to know what Wharton really thought about her own beauty? Read this scathing and sarcastic Roman à clef about her lover Morton Fullerton. (via laphamsquarterly)
Also, this piece from Victoria Patterson in the LARB is great if you were wondering about...
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Best of #WriteSpace Vol. 3: Bless this Mess.
Sometimes a little clutter goes a long way, but a lot of clutter goes even farther. Writing can be a messy business. While there were a few overcrowded desks sent in when we asked you to show us your #writespace, our own Garth Risk Hallberg certainly had the grimiest computer.
That said, here are our favorite cluttered desks:
The editors over at Classic Penguin would like you to know that that...
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The e-book versions of the "Best American" series... →
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“The Millions is one of my favorite literary blogs, I read it almost every day,...”
– Leigh Stein makes an appearance (and says a few nice things about us) in the comments on Emily St. John Mandel’s review of The Fallback Plan.
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“Our gallbladder is the bile’s favourite place to hide,
Its green and yellow...”
– From the as yet unpublished Anatomical Limericks, by Professor Jacqueline Carnegie and her students. Read more about how Carnegie uses poetry to teach science in The National Post.
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Best of #WriteSpace Vol. 2: Type Writing Ahoy!
Our own Bill Morris uses a Royal manual typewriter for first drafts, and from the looks of it he’s not the only one to find some satisfaction from punching analog keys.
In fact Patrick Nathan uses the very same machine!
And Sean-Patrick Burke has a clear typewriter. The basement vibe of this particular write space reminds me of that one episode of Roseanne. I hope Sean-Patrick gets a...
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Best of #WriteSpace Vol. 1: The Sheds
When we asked you to show us where you write we were almost praying there would be a few sheds. What’s better than a writing shed? Practically nothing.
And so allow me to present to you, my fellow humble tumblrs: The sheds!
This little beauty came to our attention by way of Laurel Snyder. Could this have been the inspiration for her wonderfully titled young reader’s novel Bigger...
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Can there be cinema without books? →
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“I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
– Frida Kahlo