Articles by Matthew Schantz
August 30, 2012
“The serious critic ultimately loves his subject more than he loves his reader” 0
Though everyone is tired of the online critics are too nice/ do critics even matter debate cropping up everywhere as of late, Daniel Mendelsohn’s “Critic’s Manifesto” may be the best thing to come out of the conversation yet: a clear formulation of what it means to be a critic and why that matters.
August 30, 2012
What’s The Rush? 0
Benjamin Percy makes the case for slowing down, “the best thing [he] ever did for my reading, which might be the best thing [he] ever did for [his] writing.”
August 27, 2012
Preview of It Chooses You 1
To celebrate the printing of Miranda July’s It Chooses You in paperback McSweeney’s is offering a free excerpt from the book. Also see our brief review of It Chooses You and the excellent Onion article wondering what July’s whole “thing” is, anyways.
August 27, 2012
A Pretentious Palette 0
It seems that one paint company has made literal The Paris Review’s literary paint chips. Pantone claims the new color schemes are drawn from the living quarters of authors such as Flaubert, Chandler, and Henry James.
August 27, 2012
Analyzing the Scumbag Brain 0
Jessica Love explores a little of the science behind every weary reader’s nemesis: zoning out.
August 27, 2012
“All we ask is that you don’t let that same commercial rot spread inside the book’s covers.” 0
A case against acknowledgments. Counterpoint: a case for keeping them.