June 19, 2014
A little positive reinforcement from your favorite authors while you daydream about pre-gaming for the weekend. Go ahead, pour yourself a tall one.
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A little positive reinforcement from your favorite authors while you daydream about pre-gaming for the weekend. Go ahead, pour yourself a tall one.
Read MoreIf you want a laugh but are too lazy to read, these audiobooks narrated by their comic authors are for you.
We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... deeper meaning? Hidden truth? Happy coincidence?
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In the wake of The Lifespan of a Fact and the agony of Mike Daisey, The Awl has rounded up almost a dozen quotations on David Sedaris and his often slippery handling of facts. Reading them, I realized that this issue had been more or less settled in my mind since I heard him read "I Like Guys" on This American Life—a recording that begins...
Read MoreWhat with Daisey and D'Agata in the news, do you think the truth is malleable?
David Sedaris seems to agree, though his stint as a Christmas elf seems to be mostly true.
Meanwhile, Toni Morrison finds the truth boring, which is why she is cancelling her memoir.
Maybe Philip Roth can attest to the same thing as he reaches his 80th birthday.
Though Lee Gutkind would pipe in that the truth is important no matter what.
And even more important, possibly, is saving some words from extinction.
Perhaps the punks could turn their political attention to linguistics as well.
Or maybe even Blade Runner could do some literary saving-the-world.
Though it would be interesting what Stalin would have to say, or perhaps his iTunes.
But that's in the past -- and maybe in the past, everything --including the books people read-- was better.
What follows is not an attempt at grammar Nazism, even though the first thing that pops up when you google the word “literally” is a definition that includes the words “not literally.”
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