Gay Talese’s highly detailed accounting of his daily routine — what he reads, how he works — is fascinating.
‘But you must read’
Carver and Lish, Revisited
On the heels of our recent look at the dynamic between Raymond Carver and Gordon Lish, a close reading of versions of Carver's stories, with and without Lish's editorial involvement.
“I was born as a woman, I talk you to death”
Recommended Reading: “The Hypno-Domme Speaks, and Speaks and Speaks” by Patricia Lockwood, which has been in my head for two days now.
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Curiosities: Three Feet of Paper
Conversational Reading covers "Four Greek Writers That You Should (and Can) Read."Wells Tower interviewed on The Dinner Party Download.Anne Trubek at Good Magazine recommends our site to "Post-Collegiate Literary Types"The Elegant Variation gets a new reader. Congratulations, Mark!Make of this what you will: "Popular Japanese horror writer Koji Suzuki will publish a short novel called Drop on rolls of toilet paper."Wikipedia Find of the Week I: Criticism of Wikipedia (so meta)Wikipedia Find of the Week II: No one cares about your garage band (so snarky)"Updike's Sunset:" Kakutani takes on two newly published Updike collections, My Father's Tears and Other Stories and Endpoint and Other Poems.Further Reading: Consider revisiting our guest post from last week, Finding Indie Opportunity on The Kindle, where a very interesting discussion developed in the comments.
Space Oddity
How does copyright work in space? Everyone's favorite Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield learned the hard way.
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The Millions Needs Your Votes!
Voting in the 3 Quarks Daily 2010 Arts & Literature Prize is about to come to an end, so this is your last chance to click over and vote for your favorite Millions essay to win the prize. Pick your favorite and place your vote.
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Listening for “Some Late-Summer Evening”
Recommended listening: The Southern Review has released a playlist perfect for summer listening, complete with five poems by Charles Simic.
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Doug Rickard’s Google Photography
Photographer Doug Rickard employs an interesting technique for his “A New American Picture” series: Google Street View. Check out the shots he took while he “virtually [drove] the unseen and overlooked roads of America, to find bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated, and abandoned.”
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