- In Open Letters, Sam Sacks writes “Quietude is godliness in Lark & Termite” and traces Faulkner’s influence on the new book.
- n+1 on the 10th anniversary of Britney Spears’ “Baby One More Time”: “After her came the deluge: the end of the record industry as we know it, yes, but also the end of America as it used to conceive of itself.”
- Soft Skull’s Richard Nash on how to publish in a recession at Conversational Reading.
- William Safire on “the deluge of books occasioned by the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.” Millions reader Scott says, “I wish the Book Review would do a LOT more of this kind of stuff.”
- The Internet is amazing I: J! Archive, “The fan-created archive of Jeopardy! games and players – 160,032 clues and counting!”
- The Internet is amazing II: The NY Times has a crossword puzzle blog.
- Maud Newton in Granta: “Exactly how long the prostitute, unbeknownst to my father, stayed at our house and slept in my bed is hard to gauge.”
- “Sometimes, instead of eating alone, I pretend I’m having lunch with American literary legends. Today’s pretend guest was Cormac McCarthy.”
- Is MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville “the best Civil War novel ever?” (via)
- At Jacket Copy, Carolyn discovers Faulkner and Delillo in the Sports Illustrated archive.
- Sara Paretsky: “My editor tells me this is the last time the company will let her send me a marked manuscript.”
- Jenny Davidson on her special pencils.
- Dan Radosh exposes yet another tired journalistic cliche.
- The novel of manners, with zombies:: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- In praise of the long sentence. (Hear, hear!)
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