March 2012
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How Hemingway became the literary equivalent of... →
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“I’m sick of people (cough, cough, Elif Batuman, cough) talking shit about MFAs,...”
– Edan Lepucki.
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“So rather than create simple works of historical fiction, fashioning narratives...”
– Eric Herschthal, reviewing Ellen Ullman’s By Blood.
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“As I said, I’m reading War and Peace on my iPhone. But you can’t tell I’m...”
– Clive Thomsen, in this great interview on POD publishing, e-reading devices, and the future of reading.
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“The spelling bee is on TV tonight
and the kids of today are showing
proudly,...”
– From “Definition” by Rob MacDonald
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“I opened the book and found that to read Joe Brainard is to befriend him. The...”
– The Zen of Joe Brainard: On The Collected Writings by John Lingan
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“VOUCHED: Are you a ghost? Be honest.
BRIAN OLIU: No. Although I am often...”
– Awful Interview: Brian Oliu
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“The abduction of Dr. Dieter Krombach began in the village of Scheidegg, in...”
– The Kalinka Affair by Joshua Hammer for The Atavist
Guys, you should check this one out. It’s like Law & Order: SVU: French connection.
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“It will not be simple, it will not take long
It will take little time, it will...”
– “Final Notions” by Adrienne Rich, who passed away this afternoon at the age of 82.
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“Titles have a way of coming in waves. There was a time a few years back when it...”
– The ___’s Daughter by Emily St. John Mandel
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“JESSE MONTGOMERY: Well, I’m sure it’ll be better than Romanian YouTube. That was...”
– Full Stop’s Jesse Montgomery interviews Geoff Dyer
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“Dating back to my indie bookstore days (Book Soup in West Hollywood), I’ve been...”
– Millions editor-in-chief C. Max Magee gets into the booth for the zombie round in The Morning News’ Tournament of Books.
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“It’s grossly unfair, of course, to compare any writer to Joyce, but if a guy was...”
– Cool Story, Bro: The Provocations of John D’Agata by Mark O’Connell
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The Reverse Flynn Effect: Average IQ In Great... →
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“Ang sabi mo’y pula ang paborito mo.
Ang sabi ko’y puti ang paborito ko.
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– Excerpted from Paolo Javier’s translation from the Tagalog of Emmanuel Lacaba’s poem “KUNDIMAN” (“Lovesong”).
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“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the...”
– All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
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WatchCharlie Rose with the cast of Mad Men
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“Secrets are at the heart of Mad Men. All of the principle characters harbor...”
– Noah Deutsch, “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Men World”
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Everything Happened
lareviewofbooks:
PHILLIP MACIAK on AMC’s Mad Men. Image courtesy AMC
Toward the end of “Tomorrowland,” the final episode of the fourth season of AMC’s Mad Men, Don Draper (the girl-, booze-, and epiphany-hound played to the nines by Jon Hamm) gazes with rapt wonder into the eyes of his newest lover. Something of a cut-to-the-chase lothario until this point, Draper’s googly candor is a bit...
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The NYPL's Ongoing MAD MEN Reading List →
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So let's just talk about Mad Men here all day,...
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“Most of my comrades arrived in similar states of disrepair. We did our best to...”
– Steve Almond, “Why Talk Therapy is on the Wane and Writing Workshops are on the Rise”
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“Scientific truth is messy. I’m proud of my articles that have attempted to...”
– Jonah Lehrer, in response to The Millions review of Imagine.
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Thomas Frank's The Baffler is back, and right now... →
