Dan Humphrey, a character on Gossip Girl, names his top 10 books of 2009.
Fictional Characters Read Fiction
More on Rizzoli’s
Rizzoli’s is closing, but if the owners have their way, there’ll be a Rizzoli’s II opening its doors in the near future. In the meantime, you can read this Times piece about the bookstore, which puts its closing into context.
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You Come at Nabokov, You Best Not Miss
It is well known that Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson had one of the more visible falling outs in literary history over the former’s English-language Eugene Onegin translation, and indeed the history of that relationship’s souring is fascinating. But even still, it’s extremely interesting to read Nabokov’s nine-page “Reply” to Wilson’s “adverse criticism.” If nothing else, one has to wonder what Wilson was thinking when he brought a knife to a gun fight.
Colson at the Casino
"We go to casinos to tell the everyday world that we will not submit." NPR has an excerpt from Colson Whitehead's new book, The Noble Hustle.
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Dan Brown’s Worst
At The Telegraph, a list of Dan Brown's worst sentences.
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Everyone Has a Book in Their Stomach
Want to get your book published? Move to Iceland. One in ten Icelanders will become published authors, which isn't a big surprise because the country has a 99 percent literacy rate. Pair with: our essay on Icelandic writer Sjón.
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Tomas Tranströmer and Robert Bly
Robert Bly and Tomas Tranströmer discuss their lives and craft in a series of letters.
On Wodehouse’s Other Writing
"For a novelist, writing letters is writing that is not writing," Ed Park says of P.G. Wodehouse's collected correspondence, A Life in Letters. The Year in Reading alum goes on to note that "a collection of letters is the unconscious narrative the author generates over the years."
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Wow, all those fancy handwriting fonts… you’d think they could have gotten a bunch of interns to write them up, but I guess you’ve gotta use ’em if you’ve got ’em.