Discussing “What We Talk About When We Talk About A Supposedly Fun Thing We’ll Never Talk About Again” - in other words, books - since 2005.
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Weekend Magazine: Getting That Perfect Souffle In A World Of Uncertainty And Pain
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for green onion re-growth stick the bulbs in water and place them in a window sill or in direct sunlight. voila. food for life
Always.
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‘tsundoku’ - the Japanese word for buying books & not reading them, leaving them to pile up.
Well.
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Brentwood Library, Tennessee
What an amazing library.
Via Cory Doctorow’s tumblr.
Look at that.
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That’s the nature of any creative activity — you’re mostly going to be rejected.
The New Yorker’s Bob Mankoff at a recent TED salon. When Mankoff quit psychology school in 1997 to become a cartoonist, he submitted 2,000 cartoons to the New Yorker that year. Of them, 2,000 were rejected. Today, he is the magazine’s cartoon editor.
Pair with the fantastic Fail Safe and Ray Bradbury’s advice on perseverance in the face of rejection.
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Southern literature scholar Michael Bibler interviews James Franco about his new adaptation of William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying:
Filmed on location in Faulkner’s northern Mississippi, the film follows the epic journey of the Bundren family as they battle flood, fire, injury, and insanity to bury the mother, Addie, in her hometown of Jefferson. The novel is told in a series of 59 monologues spoken by 19 characters, giving it the feel of both a fragmentary dramatic script and a series of internal meditations, making it exceedingly difficult to translate to other media. As Mr. Franco explains below, bringing the novel to film poses interesting opportunities and challenges for anyone trying to capture and reimagine both the peasant realism and the modernist surrealism of Faulkner’s self-proclaimed tour-de-force. The film has already generated a great deal of buzz and will no doubt be the subject of much discussion, academic and otherwise, in the years to come.
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Our Page-Turner blog asked a group of novelists how often the question of likeability has been posed about their characters: http://nyr.kr/16CpZCS
Illustration by Roman Muradov
Just got Messud’s book. Looking forward to starting it.
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Reacting to Time‘s cover story, discerning whether it’s even possible to measure narcissism.
I think it’s possible.
* mic drop *
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