Curiosities
September 22, 2011
The Correspondence of Nabokov and Wilson 0
by Rachel Hurn
The correspondence of Vladimir Nabokov and the critic Edmund Wilson suffered from Wilson’s inability to appreciate Nabokov’s work. But by the spring of 1950, illness had affected both men to the point where a skilled correspondent in the ways of the U.S. mail became “a panacea to pain.”
September 22, 2011
Homesteading Alone 0
by Rachel Hurn
So you’ve bought the books on Urban Homesteading, but what you really want is to escape completely and build your own comfy cabin in the woods. Here are three books by Homesteaders who “go it alone.”
September 22, 2011
Sugar’s Advice to Christian Writers 0
by Rachel Hurn
Can Christians still “write like a motherfucker?”
September 21, 2011
Epic Pizza Delivery From Anonymous 0
by Nick Moran
Cole Stryker‘s Epic Win for Anonymous hasn’t garnered him a lot of positive feedback from members of the infamous image board 4chan. It did, however, result in lots of pizzas being delivered to Housing Works’ Bookstore on the night of its launch party. The author later did an “Ask Me Anything” session with Reddit and explained [...]
September 21, 2011
The Slow Cookers 0
by Bill Morris
Dwight Garner, writing in the current issue of The New York Times Magazine, laments that so many high-end American novelists seem to be working on “the nine-year plan,” delivering a new novel roughly once a decade. He cites Jeffrey Eugenides, who will be out soon with The Marriage Plot, his third novel in 18 years, [...]
