May 2012
7 posts
WHEN A PIECE COMES IN SUPER LATE BUT SUPER CLEAN
I love this Tumblr. And Streep GIFS. Win win.
editorrealtalk:
Off On a Tangent: Serious Nonfiction in the... →
A worthwhile, if somewhat sobering look, at where biography may be in the years after everyone gets a Kindle and burns their paper books in a giant, “See You, PAST!” bonfire.
offonatangent:
This is a subject that’s been on my mind a lot these past few weeks, driven largely by the absolutely deserved attention cycle given to Robert Caro’s LBJ biography and volume 4, THE PASSAGE OF...
April 2012
10 posts
“Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.”
– Robert Caro (via labohrertorium)
Megan Amram: Ayn Randers →
meganamram:
Dear Ayn,
I’m dating a man who I think I love, but I’m afraid he’s having an affair. He comes home late, he acts suspiciously, and he even has red lipstick on his collar. Should I confront him or just hope for the best?
- County Af-fair
Dear County,
Red lipstick? Your husband is a…
Everything Megan Amram does is magic. This, especially so.
March 2012
5 posts
“All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about...”
– Dorothy Parker, as quoted in The Paris Review (via millionsmillions)
February 2012
10 posts
More Downton Recappery →
Still doing this silly thing. But at least it provided me the chance to coin the term “Debbie Downton,” which I’m sure will be in rotation for at least the next few months.
January 2012
11 posts
“There’s some instinctive attraction that draws you, as a writer, to your...”
– Judith Thurman, Cleopatra’s Nose
I'm in love with these (via New York Public...
See more at the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator
Obit on Parnassus/F. Scott Fitzgerald/The New...
Death before forty’s no bar. Lo!
These had accomplished their feats;
Chatterton, Burns, and Kit Marlowe,
Byron and Shelley and Keats.
Death, the eventual censor,
Lays for the forties, and so
Took off Jane Austen and Spenser,
Stephenson, Hood, and poor Poe.
You’ll leave a better-lined wallet
By reaching the end of your rope
After fifty, like Shakespeare and Smollett
Thackeray, Dickens,...
December 2011
4 posts
Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on...
towirr:
A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d be good to see them articulated. But...
What we talk about when we talk about Joan...
A: happy diddy's birthday!
R: i am eating a whole cake for it!
A: it's not rosie o'donnell's birthday
A: you should order a cake from payard. eat a sliver
A: and then fret that you got the wrong one and that nobody will come to your party
A: and then throw it away
R: see I like to celebrate Joan by eating all the things she doesn't eat
R: its the kids in africa theory
R: joan is starving somewhere so i better eat an entire pizza
Jessica Coen: Names, Words, and Phrases Appearing... →
jessicacoen:
An abridged list, in no particular order.
Edmund Wilson
poststructuralism
the Situationists
“extrainstitutional intellectualism”
bourbon
“proletarian meta-narrative”
the Lost Generation
Cornell
Sacre Coeur
Jonathan Lethem
The Paris Review
paradigm
Jacques Derrida
French…
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
6 posts
