New Yorker contributors – including a couple of participants in our “Year in Reading” series – offer a predictably thoughtful and heterodox guide to the best books they read this year.
A Year in Reading from The New Yorker
This is the title for an object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary.
From HTML GIANT's ongoing Oulipo craft notes series comes a technique so simple that anyone can do it. All you need is a dictionary.
Abundance and Awe
Recommended reading: Year in Reading alum Leslie Jamison writes about the pleasures and "democratic awe" of Whitman's Specimen Days. Pair with our own Michael Bourne's "Embracing the Other I Am: or, How Walt Whitman Saved My Life."
Take THAT, eBooks!
Writing for Ploughshares, Sean Bishop ranks ten poetry presses by the quality of their cover designs.