I’m glad someone started this blog of unnecessary quotations marks for me. (via @narrativemag).
I “Love” This.
Thursday Story: Chris Womersley
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Hitchens on Bin Laden
Christopher Hitchens has a new 5,000-word piece out today on Osama bin Laden in Kindle Single form.
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Move It
“These days, nothing says amateur hour quite like an alphabetical bookshelf.” Sloane Crosley does not have packing tips for you, though she does have some book recommendations.
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New Sebald Excerpt
Over at Page-Turner, you can check out an excerpt from W.G. Sebald’s A Place In the Country, which we previewed briefly in our Great 2014 Book Preview last month.
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On DFW, On Blogging
Practically everyone read Maud Newton‘s riff on David Foster Wallace‘s influence this weekend, but Edward Champion had some issues with it.
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“Louisiana’s heat is inescapable and aggressive.”
The Oxford American just unlocked “Dixie Zen,” Sam Anderson’s piece on Louisiana summers. Last January, Anderson wrote one of the most popular articles in Millions history.
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