The King’s Speech is the first film to portray my speech defect realistically, says novelist David Mitchell.
David Mitchell on The King’s Speech
Money and Making Out Both
Even more Rossetti! Here is a hilarious reimagining of Rossetti's "Jenny" by Mallory Ortberg over at The Toast. If it's a belly laugh you're looking for, then stick with Ortberg: try Dirtbag Jason and the Argonauts.
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New Zadie Smith
Recommended Reading: Zadie Smith's latest short story, "Moonlit Landscape with Bridge," at The New Yorker. "The Minister got stuck on a sentence: I am further from my village now than I have ever been. Italicized just like that, in his mind."
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“Style is the writer”
OWS: A Poet’s Perspective
Why one poet believes that Occupy Wall Street has already won.
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Tres Fridas para el miércoles
Here’s some rare footage of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera hanging out with Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova in 1938. Here’s an awesome quote from Kahlo: “I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.” And finally, here’s a picture of Frida that’s even more awesome than both of those things.
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The Yeti’s Back
Recommended Reading: Megan Garber on the resurrection of Skymall.
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Purgatorio
After more than sixty years, Antonio di Benedetto has had his book Zama finally translated into English. The novel, which kicks off in the 1790s, depicts a Spanish administrator named Don Diego de Zama, whose viceroy dispatches him to a town in the scrublands of Paraguay. In the latest New Yorker, Benjamin Kunkel gives his take.
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The End of the Gala Era
Peter Osnos on how far the publishing industry has come since the galas and publishing events of the 1990s: "That the action in publishing now is in the creation of books rather than selling the rights to them is a meaningful indicator of the excitement in the industry about the digital potential."
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