Curiosities
May 14, 2013
Tuesday New Release Day: Adichie, Knausgaard, Brown 0
by C. Max Magee
New in fiction this week is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. The second volume of Karl Knausgaard’s My Struggle hits American shores (read about Volume One). Oh yeah, and that Dan Brown guy has a book out. Bonus Links: You can now subscribe to listings of literary new releases in your feed reader with this RSS [...]
May 13, 2013
Travelogue 0
by Thomas Beckwith
Recommended: Year in Reading alumna Sheila Heti on her time at the Cuirt Literary Festival.
May 13, 2013
Post-Madeline 0
by Thomas Beckwith
To mark the 100th anniversary of Swann’s Way, the Times published a series of blog posts on the legacy of In Search of Lost Time. Among other things, it includes a reflection by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.
May 13, 2013
Righteous Anger 0
by Thomas Beckwith
You’ve probably heard the sad news that Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman passed away on May 2nd. In memory of Hanneman’s work with the band, Greg Pollock wrote a paean to God Hates Us All, “the most important album in [his] life.”
May 13, 2013
“For the sake of having something to celebrate” 0
by Thomas Beckwith
As part of their collaboration with the fiction editors at Five Chapters, the folks at Salon posted a story from A Guide to Being Born, the new collection by Millions contributor Ramona Ausubel.
May 13, 2013
No Shyster, He 0
by Thomas Beckwith
Thanks to the efforts of Gerald Leonard Cohen, the world now knows where the word “jazz” came from, why certain types of sausages came to be called “hot dogs” and how New York got the nickname “The Big Apple.”