Listen to National Book Award winner Colum McCann read from Let The Great World Spin and discuss his prize-winning novel with Wellesley’s “reggae novelist” Colin Channer.
Colum McCann Reads
On Hating Poetry
Ben Purkert reviews Year in Reading alum Ben Lerner’s The Hatred of Poetry. If you like the title, check out ten poems for people who hate poetry.
Worth Its Weight
What's the value of a Nobel Prize? As of last week, at least $250,000.
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This Curiosity is Awful
Looking for someone to whip your writing into shape? Then tweet the new Gordon Lish bot, a Twitter account which offers unvarnished critiques of your tweets and fictional sentences. (Related: Frank Kovarik on the editor’s relationship with Raymond Carver.)
Make Fascism Great Again
“There’s still time to look something else up.” Merriam-Webster pleads with word lovers to prevent "fascism" from becoming its word of the year, The Guardian reports. See also: this Lithub piece about the social media genius behind M-W's Twitter feed.
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Masculine? Feminine?
An arrestingly androgyne Marc Jacobs is the subject of a startling new portrait by make-up guru and photographer, François Nars--the photo offers a taste of Nars' forthcoming book 15x15.
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