Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith — you’ve read their books, now check out their essays, articles and criticism available free online.
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Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith — you’ve read their books, now check out their essays, articles and criticism available free online.
Read MoreMelt your heart with these photos of famous author BFFs hanging out, and read some of their finest words on friendship.
Read MoreA weekly series that explores a featured theme by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Leave your guesses in the comments, and check back next Wednesday for the answers.
“Confronted by evil, comedy feels no need to punish or correct. It answers with corrosive laughter.”
-Martin Amis
“Vengeance is mine; I will repay.”
-Romans 12:19
“All morons hate it when you call them a moron.”
-Salinger (from The Catcher in the Rye)
“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
-Truman Capote
“Immediately, I’m scanning for anything that might be not just Murman-level Uncomebackable, but Pharaoh Uncomebackable, something so Pharaoh Uncomebackable that Necro will never leave his house again.”
-Bill Peters (from Maverick Jetpants in the City of Quality)
Do you see the connections? Write your guesses in the comments — and feel free to leave your own "uncomebackable" quotes — and check in next Wednesday to find the headlines that inspired these pairings.
Images: news.yahoo.com Newser, vice.com, abcnews.go.com, eonline
Answers to last week's installment:
Desmond Pepperdine has a secret — one that’s revealed on the first page of Martin Amis’s new novel, Lionel Asbo. The secret itself is pretty unthinkable, but it precipitates a crime so unthinkable that, once it’s happened, Desmond can’t think about it. All of which got me thinking about the secrets that run riot though Amis's whole oeuvre. Here's my Top 5.
Read MoreI was just trying to think of something to say about Martin Amis, whose first biography is currently being kicked around by the British Press and whose books I’ve been drawn to for half of my life, when I came across this BBC headline: “Stalin’s Daughter Lana Peters Dies in US of Cancer.”
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