June 2012
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Reddit's r/literature Subreddit Asks, "What Was... →
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May 2012
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“There was no stopping her now. She wrote like a woman possessed, scrawling on...”
– Post-40 Bloomer: Mary Wesley, That Sort of Girl by Lisa Peet
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“There is something about Mary Wesley’s work that loves a blurb. ‘Jane...”
– Post-40 Bloomer: Mary Wesley, That Sort of Girl by Lisa Peet
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“SH: Because I know I did love The Hills, like that was just — my mind blew open...”
– My social media teammate Emily M. Keeler interviewed Sheila Heti, and she’s probably too humble to promote it on her own, so I’ll do it for her.
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WatchIn 1993, River Phoenix was working on Dark Blood, an independent film that was supposed to be the underdog surprise of the year. But when Phoenix died three weeks before shooting was supposed to wrap, the project stopped in its tracks. Now, almost 20 years later, the original director and editor are piecing the bits together, and they plan on screening it at the Netherlands Film Festival in...
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“After I got an MFA at the the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, I moved to New York City,...”
– A Passion for Immortality: On the Missing Pulitzer and the Problem with Prizes by Benjamin Hale
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Drinkify: Drink Recommendations Based on Your... →
Also, the answer for “Pokemon” is kinda funny.
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“Where Fitzgerald casts feeling across the brow of novelistic self-consciousness,...”
– The Millions : Miles to Go: Notes on Marathon Reading
A great piece on marathon readings by Jeff Price; honored to have our DFW readathon included.
(via wordbrooklyn)
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“My boyfriend isn’t really my boyfriend; he and I aren’t quite living together....”
– Roxane Gay has a new story on Joyland Midwest. You should go read it.
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“Among the brand-name French theorists of the mid-20th century, Roland Barthes...”
– Sam Anderson, opening his NYT Mag riff on Mythologies with quite possibly the greatest lede of all time.
“There exists a definite likeness with organized religion’s governing impulse in...”
– Jeff Price, The Millions : Miles to Go: Notes on Marathon Reading
I sound like a moron but the rest of the article is interesting. I like the idea of doing a Carver marathon, or another short story marathon, where each reader would read a different short story instead of segments of a novel....
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Literature’s Most Frequent Crimes?
Congratulations on the first 50 composites!
thecomposites:
As The Composites nears its 50th image I thought it was time to look at what was popular on the site statistically. Anyone can see what was the most shared composite on the archives page (It’s Humbert Humbert, if you were wondering) but I wanted to add a dimension of literary analysis and break the numbers down to crimes committed by...
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“professionals are slightly more likely to review and approve of books written by...”
– -Lloyd Shepherd, “Amazon v newspaper: which is the more valuable review?.”
The Guardian Book Blog has already pointed out that Amazon reviewers and critics agree “in aggregate about the quality of a book.” This all begs the question: Will literary criticism soon go the way...
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A Spotify Playlist of Every Song Mentioned in... →
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“Books speak better than humans sometimes. Why do we slyly inspect others’...”
– Librarian, Distressed by Kyle Winkler
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“Richard Ford has earned his place in the pantheon of late-20th-century American...”
– Across the Border: Richard Ford’s Canada by Michael Bourne
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