How it all got started: in 1868, The Nation published an article by John William De Forest titled “The Great American Novel.” (via American Literary blog).
The Great American Novel
“Like church bells rung by wild sugar high children”
“Perhaps it’s a sign that our literary culture is not quite so ailing that Smith managed to make a space for NW, to clear a third path, one that meanders through Willesden, through time, and through the mind.” Our own Emily M. Keeler on realism and Zadie Smith.
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Comparing Anna Karenina’s Suicide to Mets Fandom? Sounds Right to Me.
You might be surprised to learn that Paul Auster is more concerned with the New York Mets than he is with his recently released memoir, Winter Journal. “Baseball is life,” says the Brooklyn writer.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Retire Here?
A retired Japanese couple has teamed up with an architecture firm to design “a house with a bookshop and a café where neighbors and visitors can stop by.” The result is a decidedly more spacious and well-lit version of Brazenhead Books – another domicile/bookshop.
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