At The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani gets in an early review of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, heralding it “his most deeply felt novel yet.”
Michiko Kakutani on Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom”
The Puddlies
Powell’s Books announces their Puddly Awards. Vote for your favorite book of the last decade.
Book Fixin’
Do you have books in need of binding repair? Do it yourself!
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Geoff Dyer on Novelistic Essays and Essayistic Novels
Need to kill 37 minutes? Check out “The Novelistic Essay and the Essayistic Novel,” a lecture by Geoff Dyer from this past year’s Key West Literary Summit. (h/t Mark O’Connell)
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I Can Haz Illuminated Manuscripts?
Cats and the Internet, cats and the codex: a match made in history.
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A Budding Fan
In 1964, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin wrote Marvel icon Stan Lee a fan letter.
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Revel in the Disorderly
“The only way to get something new out of language, to try and get to what feels like the nearest simulacrum of truth, is to bend and shape that language, to break it’s form and strain against it, to coax it into a shape, to play with it. To revel in the disorderly.” Madeleine Watts writes about Eimear McBride‘s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing (which our own Hannah Gersen recently reviewed), the limits of language and the necessity of a “Girl Canon” for The Believer‘s blog.
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I wonder what Franzen thinks of her now. He once called her “the stupidest person in New York City.”