Lists
December 5, 2011
12 Holiday Gifts That Writers Will Actually Use 37
by Hannah Gersen
Writers get blank journals for the same reasons that teachers get mugs, assistants get flowers, and grandmothers get tea. If you want to give the writer in your life something he or she will truly adore, here are twelve ideas.
November 29, 2011
Reasons Not to Self-Publish in 2011-2012: A List 156
by Edan Lepucki
You see, Reader, I still don’t plan on self-publishing my first novel, though I don’t deny the positive aspects of that choice.
November 22, 2011
The Notables: 2011 1
by C. Max Magee
This year’s New York Times Notable Books of the Year list is out. At 100 titles, the list is more of a catalog of the noteworthy than a distinction. Sticking with the fiction exclusively, it appears that we touched upon a few of these books as well: The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo (Most Anticipated) [...]
October 28, 2011
Seven Reasons Why Alexandre Dumas Will Never Die 5
by Bill Morris
If every smart person’s goal in life is to die broke, then Dumas was an unqualified success. But while a lesser man would have bemoaned the cruelties of fate that left him penniless on his deathbed, Dumas had this to say about death as it approached him in 1870: “I shall tell her a story, and she will be kind to me.”
September 28, 2011
Very Bad Things: A Pessimistic Reading List 9
by Emily St. John Mandel
Troubling works of fiction for troubled times.
September 21, 2011
The Life and Afterlife of Literary Theory: A Syllabus 16
by David Winters
In 1996, NYU physics professor Alan Sokal tricked the preeminent journal of postmodern thought into publishing his article, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” The piece was pure gibberish.
