In an interview about her new book, The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I’m a Love-aholic, Jennifer Love had some rather startling advice for jilted young ladies: “After a breakup, a friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my precious lady. It shined like a disco ball so I have a whole chapter in there on how women should vagazzle their vajayjays.”
Introducing the Vagazzled Vajayjay
Every Love Story Gets a Book Trailer
The book trailer is out for Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, D. T. Max’s biography of David Foster Wallace -- it features a brief cameo from yours truly. The book’s opening paragraphs appeared on our site this week, too.
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Not Very Titillating
Those of you who know the joy of reading romance novels with your friends have probably wondered at some point what people who write erotica are like. Are they bankers and professionals? Housewives and mistresses? Are they some combination of all of the above? At Slate, a chaste look at the lives of unchaste writers.
Feeling Very Still
Can you hear me, Major Tom? The world lost one of the good ones today in David Bowie; celebrate his enormous contributions to art as we know it and take a look at this list of Bowie's 100 essential books which includes everyone from Camille Paglia to Anthony Burgess. Bonus: here's a link to Bowie singing "Changes" in what became his final live performance.
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Flame Out
For whatever reason, pop music (at least in the Western world) displays an inordinate fascination with people who die at a young age. At The Atlantic, Leah Sottile takes a look at our collective fixation on the mantra “Live fast, die young.”
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O’Connell on Shields
Our own Mark O'Connell has reviewed How Literature Saved My Life by David Shields in this week's New York Times Book Review. "When you read David Shields, the first thing you learn is that he takes literature very seriously."
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The S Monster
ICYMI, J.J. Abrams (of Lost and Star Trek fame) will release a novel -- conceived by Abrams and written by Doug Dorst -- in October with the enigmatic title of S. Last month, he released the first half of a teaser trailer; this week, he released the second half.
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Face Off: Kardashian/Kahlo
"Where does the line between the self-portrait and the selfie fall? Both Kardashian West and Kahlo are masters of the form—suggesting that perhaps there is no clear line at all." Anyone who puts Frida and Kim together in an essay, as Sarah Murray has for The Rumpus, has our full and enthusiastic support. Also relevant: Alizah Salario's piece about the naming of North West.
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In that passage she sounds eerily like the narrator of “Everything is Illuminated.”
“Everything is Vagazzled”: As unlikely a coincidence as the world offers.