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Salty Gothic: Nick Dybek’s When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man
by Mindy Farabee
Dybek isn’t just alluding to Stevenson, but also riffing on Richard II and something of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, while dropping in Japanese auteurs and Greek mythology, to weave in heavily freighted dreams and the vaguely supernatural.
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Confessions of a Literary Jingoist
by Elizabeth Minkel
It’s an age-old complaint, but things don’t really seem to be changing. You can seek out literature from just about anywhere — and now it’s easier than any previous point in history — but it’s a hell of a lot harder to bring it into the conversation.
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At the Guardian Book Blog, Anthony Horowitz wonders “who’s helping who in the cover blurb game.” We of course recommend pairing his article with Alan Levinovitz’s Brief History of Blurbs from last year.
0~Nick MoranChinua Achebe, best known for his novel Things Fall Apart, is working on a memoir to be titled There Was a Country.
0~Nick MoranDue to some outcry, Robert Darnton comes to the defense of the New York Public Library’s proposed expansion and revamping.
0~Nick MoranJames Wood’s New Yorker review of Laurent Binet’s HHhH, makes note of the sections of the book that were cut by editors (and name-checks The Millions). Here they are if you want to read them and learn more about the context behind the cuts.
0~C. Max MageeIn a neat little essay for Vouched Books, Kyle Winkler advocates indexing as a means of tempering the “fuckstorm of reading.”
1~Nick MoranLeaving the Atocha Station author Ben Lerner interviews Threshold Songs author Peter Gizzi in what can only be described as a poetry explosion.
0~Nick MoranCarlos Fuentes, public intellectual and pivotal literary figure in not only Latin American but all of literature, passed away yesterday at the age of 83. Publisher’s Weekly recently interviewed the author about his forthcoming novel, Vlad.
0~Nick MoranThe text of Salman Rushdie’s PEN World Voices lecture on liberty and censorship has been published on the New Yorker‘s website.
0~Emily M. KeelerThe Common will be celebrating its first year of publication later this month at NYU’s Carter Journalism institute. The celebrations will include a reading from Stephen O’Connor and a performance by the Dog House Band, aka that literary rock group consisting of Sven Birkerts, James Wood, and other writerly musicians.
0~Emily M. KeelerAccording to a study cited in The Guardian, contemporary authors are less likely to be influenced by classic literature than previous generations of writers.
1~Emily M. KeelerAharon Appelfeld, a prolific Israeli novelist, has won the Independent Prize for international fiction for his latest book, Blooms of Darkness. Check out our guide to this year’s award’s shortlist.
0~Emily M. KeelerNow that NPR has begun fact checking his work, it’s come to light that David Sedaris is a liar. Or, he sort of embellishes. His work is ‘realish.’ So basically, he tells stories. On NPR. Which is feeling pretty sensitive abut the line between truth and truthiness after the Mike Daisey upset.
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Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains Nicholas Carr
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The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
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New American Haggadah Jonathan Safran Foer and Nathan Englander
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Train Dreams Denis Johnson
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Stephen Greenblatt
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Binocular Vision Edith Pearlman
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Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language R. Klanten, S. Ehmann and F. Schulze
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How to Sharpen Pencils David Rees























































