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War and Sociology
What can we learn about Leo Tolstoy by reading the German sociologist Max Weber? Let Jeremy Klemin from 3:AM Magazine explain. While we’re on Tolstoy, here’s a complementary piece that asks the age old question–who’s better: Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky?
A Critical Take on Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer may not have exactly “self-plagiarized” his own work, but he certainly did recycle a good amount of his writing in a misleading way. And while many have criticized this kind of lazy writing, it’s worth revisiting Tim Requarth and Meehan Crist’s critical review of Lehrer’s book, Imagine, which plays a central role in this entire scandal.
Tuesday New Releases
Among the books hitting shelves this week are Pulitzer winner and New Yorker staffer Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University and memoirist and poet Nick Flynn's The Ticking is the Bomb. Also new, Melville House is putting out a novella, Union Jack, by Nobel laureate Imre Kertész, and NYRB Classics has published Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy a novel by Olivia Manning based on her time in Eastern Europe during World War II. Rachel Cusk provides an introduction to the edition.
Vintage Barthelmismo
Thomas Pynchon defined what he termed “vintage Barthelmismo” as “fictions thoughtfully concocted and comfortably beyond the reach of time.” This moving tribute to Donald Barthelme by Padgett Powell from the forthcoming anthology, A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors, is right in line with Pynchon’s sentiment. Here’s another Barthelme mention from The Millions that you may be interested in.
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Beach Boys Reunite
"Wouldn't it be nice if we were older? / Then we wouldn't have to wait so long," crooned Brian Wilson in The Beach Boys' 1966 hit "Wouldn't It Be Nice." The song went on to become the title of Wilson's autobiography. Now, over half a century later, the crew is finally older, and fans hoping for a reunion won't have to "wait so long" because the band's officially announced an upcoming 50th anniversary tour.
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Kill Your Crutches
“Other favorites I’ve found myself overusing include 'she nodded,' 'she raised her eyebrows,' and 'she walked home slowly / she slowly walked home.'” Maria Murnane writes for the Amazon Author Insights blog (full disclosure: Amazon helps us keep the lights on around here!) about how to watch out for crutch words.
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I would like to add:
Housing Works Bookstore, http://housingworksbookstore.tumblr.com/
Books Matter, http://booksmatter.tumblr.com
Books I Just Read, http://booksijustread.com/
Great finds, Tiffany.
I’ll tack on:
Bookshelf Porn (this IS safe for work, despite its title), http://bookshelfporn.com/
Proustitute, http://proustitute.tumblr.com/
Slaughterhouse 90210, http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/
NYPL, http://nypl.tumblr.com/
Dostoyevsky, http://dostoyevsky.tumblr.com/
McNally Jackson, http://mcnallyjackson.tumblr.com/
Also these publishers and magazines have good ones:
W. W. Norton, http://wwnorton.tumblr.com/
A. A. Knopf, http://aaknopf.tumblr.com/
Hobart Pulp, http://hobartpulp.tumblr.com/
NYRB Classics, http://nyrbclassics.tumblr.com/
LARB, http://lareviewofbooks.org/
The Missouri Review, http://themissourireview.tumblr.com/
Scribner Books, http://scribnerbooks.tumblr.com/
The Paris Review, http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/
Thanks for mentioning my tumblr “Writers No One Reads”! I’m embarrassed by the lazy name (at least I deleted the “f*ck yeah” after the first day), especially when learning of SLAUGHTERHOUSE 90210.
What about a literary tumblr of short stories from an aspiring writer who’s too easily enticed by the instant gratification of followers’ Likes to pursue real publication elsewhere? Does that count?
http://paintedfictions.tumblr.com/
Tumblr is a platform that encourages quick, image oriented scroll-down browsing anyway, but it is encouraging to follow the New Yorker and The Atlantic on it…makes me feel like I have a way closer relationship with them than is realistic!
The Los Angeles Review of Books (lareviewofbooks.org) has consistently marvelous content. It’s a great and vital literary venture, though I don’t think it will be a Tumblr for much longer, since they’re supposedly launching a new site soon.