May 19, 2014
David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech is amazing, but Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison and Nora Ephron can do just as well (if not better).
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David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech is amazing, but Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison and Nora Ephron can do just as well (if not better).
Read MoreCheese mongers of the literary world, unite! We're matching famous authors with their curdy counterparts. It's time to get cheesy with it.
Read MoreUpon trawling through the incredible Vogue online archive, we made a startling discovery:
writers have been copping their author photo poses from the magazine's
covers for decades. Don't believe us? We have proof.
What 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.
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