City of Quartz author Mike Davis is writing a biography of the Los Angeles Times‘ bygone publisher Harrison Gray Otis. Appropriately, the installments will be serialized by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Serializing in the Digital Age II
Strong Misgivings
Recommended Reading: Three poems at The Rumpus by Dean Rader.
Anything for Money
On Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading Tumblr, check out National Book Award finalist Karen E. Bender’s short story “Anything for Money.”
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Conversations over Stolen Food (in Illicit Spaces)
The Faster Times offers up a new dialogue from dynamic duo Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch’s "Conversations over Stolen Food," which seamlessly segues from Astroglide and Fung Wah buses to Alaskan Brown Bears, and includes a run-in with New York Park Patrol. Images by Paper Monument editor Dushko Petrovich are added eye candy.
A Song of Spare Time
As you might expect, the world of Game of Thrones fanfiction is complicated, pornographic and more than a little bit intimidating.
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“55 Thoughts” On The Air
Recommended listening: Our own Nick Ripatrazone talks with NHPR about his Millions essay, "55 Thoughts for English Teachers."
Emily Gould’s Mysterious Book Project
Emily Gould, former Gawker editor, author of And the Heart Says Whatever, proprietor of the literary cooking show Cooking the Books, appears poised to launch a new literary venture, Emily Books. So says The Observer.