Are critically acclaimed authors really terrible? Is feminism bad for women? New York Magazine runs down the greatest hits of what appears, in hindsight, to have been the Decade of Counterintuition (and, in the process, catalogues many of my personal bêtes noires).
Are Babies Racist?
Judging an Author by the Cover
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In The Kitchen
What's cooking? Just an interview with the author who's ghostwritten seemingly every bestselling cookbook out there.
List of Lengthy Books
In honor of our own Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire (which stands at a hefty nine hundred pages), Bethanne Patrick has compiled a reading list of lengthy books at Lit Hub. You could also check out our interview with Hallberg.
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Threat Level Seven
It's hard to know exactly what North Korea will do these days, but if you're looking for context, The Morning News published a cartoon guide to recent history.
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Writers and Their Books
Equal parts voyeuristically indulgent and unapologetically stimulating, Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books is the second installment in Yale University Press’s ongoing series, a journey into the personal libraries of thirteen favorite authors. This installment? Alison Bechdel, Stephen Carter, Junot Díaz, Rebecca Goldstein, and more.
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No, I Matter Less!
To celebrate the release of Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine, the Cabinet editors put their own magazine on trial, filling up an NYPL auditorium with academics and writers who, perhaps inevitably, began to compete in a kind of irrelevance-off. Which begs the question, answered well by The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones in Bookforum: how relevant to the wider culture is a magazine like Cabinet, anyway?
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We Have So Little Time Anyway
Recommended Reading: The Rumpus interviews John Grisham.
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Much to Sympathize With
Recommended Reading: Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nervous Breakdown self-interview. (FYI, you can read an excerpt of Nguyen’s latest book over at Bloom.)
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I liked Rush Limbaugh’s quote (a sentiment not often observed in TheMillions) about the Newsweek story, “Are Babies Born Racist:”
“If homosexuality being inborn is what makes it acceptable why does racism being inborn not make racism acceptable?”