Articles by Emily M. Keeler

September 11, 2012

Big Papa Country 0

Brad Leithauser on being from “Hemingway country,” and Matt Pearce, on the impossibility of tweeting from there.

September 11, 2012

An evening with Neal Stephenson 0

Next month, the University of Washington is hosting an Open Bookclub with Neal Stephenson, and his novel, Reamde. There will also be a panel of interdisciplinary commentators.

September 11, 2012

The Threat of Death 1

The New Yorker has published the chapter of Salman Rushdie’s forthcoming memoir, Joseph Anton, that describes the circumstances of his life immediately after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s spiritual leader in 1989, called for his execution by proclaiming a fatwā on the writer, after the controversial treatment of Islamic history and the Prophet Muhammad in The Satanic [...]

September 7, 2012

A thrilling history 0

The history of Ian McEwan’s forthcoming Sweet Tooth.

September 7, 2012

52,757 0

Last night, during President Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, people were sending out 52,757 Obama related tweets per minute. This morning, the speech was fact checked. And here’s what Steve Almond wished Obama had said.

September 7, 2012

Tedious and overrated tweeting. 0

Apparently Bret Easton Ellis is not a DFW fan.