Alexander Chee has a lovely essay about books and technology up at The Morning News.
Alexander Chee: “I, Reader”
A Critic Turned Novelist
"Sometimes I think I’ve lost my nerve a little bit. I think it’s growing older, and a certain reservoir of anger literally runs out." The Guardian interviews James Wood, author and book critic at The New Yorker, about his craft, his forthcoming novel Upstate, and the landscape of today's literary criticism. Pair with: an essay about the greatness (and great influence) of Wood on a fellow novelist.
Iran Overload
My student and friend Paria Kooklan pens a guest piece at the Vroman's Blog about the popularity of novels about Iran--and penning her own. "I mean, the American public has a short attention span – Iranians are hot right now, but I can’t help wondering when the trend is going to die out. Next year, there may well be another trendy nationality: Iraqis, maybe. Or Tibetans. Or…I don’t know – the Bhutanese? Anything is possible."
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“Methinks the lady doth protest too much”
A look into the art of misquotation.
For the Viral Good
As you may have heard, Twitter went public last week, which means a lot of people are trying to figure out just what its IPO means for social media. Over at n+1, Benjamin Kunkel proposes that social media, by its very nature, cannot be profitable, and thus should be administered by the state as a public good.
Tuesday New Release Day: Martin, Pollock, Spiotta, Ball, Weiner, Peach, Goodman
New this week is George R.R. Martin's latest Song of Ice and Fire installment, A Dance with Dragons. Also hitting shelves: Donald Ray Pollock's The Devil All the Time and Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia (Don't miss our preview with tons more upcoming books.) Jesse Ball, whose The Curfew has just come out, also has a new collection, The Village on Horseback. Jennifer Weiner's new book, Then Came You, is out, as is the first issue of McSweeney's new food magazine, Lucky Peach. Out in paperback: Allegra Goodman's The Cookbook Collector.
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Phil Klay on “War Literature”
"I’ve been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don’t think there is anything." The Daily Beast interviews Phil Klay about the National Book Award, Redeployment, and the concept of war literature.
Just a friendly notice, Ms. Kiesling. It appears you’ve parsed the link with two ‘http’s in the address. The browser’s showing up a ‘This site cannot be found’ error.
Thanks for the excellent link, though. I get TMN newsletters far too late to get these awesome articles.
Oh, crud. Thank you for letting me know. Currently comcast is having a midwestern meltdown and I don’t think my phone can handle behind-the-scenes web stuff so I will fix this in the morning. Sorry about that!
Fixed!