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Books Matter: Five Writers I Admire Talking About... →
Click through to see #LitBeat correspondent Tiffany Gibert’s collection of great quips of admiration from Lydia Millet, Jonathan Lethem, Alexander Chee, and more. booksmatter: Anne Carson on George Eliot … when I read George Eliot, I read her for the descriptions of weather. Perhaps that’s the wrong way to read George Eliot, but how comforting, the way she describes light moving over...
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“He proposes that assholism is more rampant in society than ever before.”
– John McWhorter reviews Ascent of the A-Word: Assholism, the First Sixty Years
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"Literature" was an Olympic event until 1948 →
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“She didn’t quite know how, though, as she hadn’t ever tried writing...”
– Tana French, making this stuff look EASY
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“Let’s not mince words: this is all deeply silly. And that, of course, is the...”
– Ted Scheinman, “Tristram Shandy, Dilettante: Laurence Sterne and the Pleasures of Attention-Deficit Literature.”
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Somewhere in England there is a person alone in a... →
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“You would think it doesn’t need clarification, but apparently it does:...”
– This and more unwritten rules of writing class from Joe Griffin.
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“Papa himself said in a Paris Review interview, “The most essential gift for a...”
– 47 Endings Can’t Ruin A Great Novel: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms by Michael Bourne
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“Would you want to read a war novel called Love Is One Fervent Fire? Or Death...”
– 47 Endings Can’t Ruin A Great Novel: Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms by Michael Bourne
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WatchWatch
storyboard: Literary Identity: The Composites Brian Joseph Davis collects faces. Specifically, he collects the faces of fictional characters on The Composites, his blog of police sketches driven by reader suggestions. We talked with Brian about his motivations and process, and we followed him through the creation of one of our own favorite faces.
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