Out in paperback this week, The Guardians is Sarah Manguso’s elegy for a friend who eloped from a psychiatric ward and jumped in front of a Metro-North train. As her book joins the slim ranks of literature mourning the loss of a platonic friend, we follow the cadences of her grief with four stanzas from Tennyson’s masterwork of that genre, “In Memoriam A.H.H.”
Read MoreThese are fashion trends I do not understand. Allow my sartorial Andy Rooney a moment to vent.
Read MoreRead as a whole, the Twitter of writer and friend of the Internet generation Tao Lin is very much an extension of his longer published work. The guy himself is a literary meme, so it seems fitting to reproduce his most meme-able writings in kind.
Read MoreEveryone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?
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