March 11, 2013
A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Colm Tóibín, Heidi Julavits, John Wray, and Álvaro Enrigue grapple with translation.
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A weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author reading: the Q&A. This week, Colm Tóibín, Heidi Julavits, John Wray, and Álvaro Enrigue grapple with translation.
Read MoreEvery once in a while I’ll vaguely remember the premise of a book I read as a child and vainly try to Google its title. Many truly great YA books go forgotten, so the ones that do stick in your mind deserve to be celebrated.
Read MoreVoice of Lizzy Bennet and she of zero tolerance for bullshit Jane Austen once said, "The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” I'm not saying people who make stuff out of book pages are stupid. I'm just saying people who buy stuff made out of book pages might want to pause and buy a copy of Pride and Prejudice instead.
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you ever read something so brilliant that you wished you’d written it?
These literary mad libs are your chance to rewrite the classics, no
monkeys or typewriters required.
Upon 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.
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 MoreThere are a few regular internet wormholes I can fall into for hours, and while some are more common, like searching for sloths on youtube.com or just "boots" on zappos.com (that's my usual cure for jetlag), I can also lose hours to reading anti-Scientology websites and books.
Read MoreThe Lives in Translation interview series asks how translators and authors bridge the gaps between different languages and different lives. Our first interviewee is Charlotte Mandell, whose translations from French have brought miniature pastiches by Proust and a 517-page-long sentence by Mathias Énard into the English language.
Read MoreWhat would happen if all our favorite Sci Fi authors went to high school together, in the process, creating a rift in the space-time continuum? Ray Bradbury is most certainly Class Sweetheart. But who is Best Dressed?
Read MoreImitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Here are ten characters from today’s hit TV shows who take their cues from some classic literary characters.
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