Articles by Ujala Sehgal
December 6, 2010
Lynda Barry on the Painted Novel 0
“I came back to my studio and tried to think of the slowest possible way to write a novel, and the slowest way is with frosting.” The Paris Review interviews cartoonist Lynda Barry about writing novels with a paintbrush.
December 3, 2010
How to Be a Book Critic 0
As part of an ongoing series, Critical Mass asks book critics to name five books that should be found in any reviewer’s library — Ruth Franklin of The New Republic posts her picks. (via Book Bench)
December 3, 2010
P.T. Anderson Wants to Direct Pynchon Novel 0
Vulture reports that Paul Thomas Anderson wants to adapt Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 novel Inherent Vice for the big screen.
December 2, 2010
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books 0
“The [book] review’s pre-eminence is irrefutable: most people are acquainted with far, far more books through reviews than they could ever hope to read. And that is, generally, to the good.” Joseph Mackin explores why we write and read book reviews for the New York Journal of Books.
December 1, 2010
What Was the Best Book You Read in 2010? 1
Attention @The_Millions Twitter followers: let us know the best books you read in 2010 via #yearinreading!
December 1, 2010
Margaret Atwood Talks Twitter 0
“Time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folk songs in which the hero spends a night with the queen of the faeries and then returns to find that 100 years have passed and all his friends are dead…” Margaret Atwood talks Twitter with Robert McCrum.
