At long last…Google provides proof that Obama is a socialist! “Barrack” Obama, that is.
Proof that Obama is a Socialist
A Narrative Made Up of Many Narratives
Elizabeth Karp-Evans interviews How to Read a Novelist author John Freeman about editing, American narratives, and his goals for Freeman’s.
Tough Sell
Did Patrick Modiano deserve the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature? Wrong question, our own Bill Morris writes in The Daily Beast. The right question is: Why is foreign fiction in translation still such a tough sell for American publishers?
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There Once Was a Girl
Recommended Reading: “There Once Was a Girl” by Katy Waldman at Slate. “Anorexia is the mental health equivalent of the red shoes that make you dance until you die. It is a performance—of femininity, of damage, of power—that turns into a prison.”
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“Between research and reflection”
The LA Times has a review up of Eula Biss's On Immunity: An Innoculation, an "elegant, intelligent and very beautiful book, which occupies a space between research and reflection." We covered the collection in our Second-Half 2014 Book Preview, and Biss's first book, Notes from No Man's Land, has appeared in several Millions pieces over the last few years.
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“Tough, Funny, and Sophisticated”
Sam Sacks of Open Letters Monthly offers an encomium to Pauline Kael, "one of the best movie critics - or critics of any kind - of the past century."
GIFs Can Be Serious, Too
There are a lot of funny and silly GIF blogs out there, but what if you're more "serious-minded?" What if you want something more fulfilling out of 2012's "Word of the Year?" Well, you're in luck.
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See, I told ya so…