Orson Welles and H.G. Wells talk to one another, and now you can listen thanks to the magic of YouTube. (via)
Welles and Wells
The Ice Is Slick
Recommended Reading: A new poem by Danez Smith for BuzzFeed READER.
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Needs a Good Family
Seventy-two copies of One Story are looking for loving homes. Reader, will you be a dear and adopt a hungry short story?
A Bookish Father’s Day
Looking for the perfect book for Father's Day, but didn't find quite what you were looking for in our list? Lit Hub has some supplemental titles you might be interested in.
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Poetry Haters
Ben Lerner and Cody Delistraty discuss why so many people (rightfully) hate poetry. Pair with this Millions piece on poetry for people who hate poetry.
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Happy 110th Bloomsday! (2/2)
In honor of Bloomsday, some recommended reading, listening, and playing: one-day diaries of four modern Blooms in New York, Radio Bloomsday's seven hours of readings (by Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Jerry Stiller, Garrison Keillor, and others), even found poetry and an iPhone game drawn from the text of Ulysses. Oh, and--of course--James Joyce's book itself.
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Vintage Interview with Jaimy Gordon
While you're waiting to get your hands on Lord of Misrule, the National Book Award winner by Jaimy Gordon, Gargoyle Magazine posts an interview with Gordon from 1983. (via The Paris Review).
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A destination for writers and scholars
John Updike's childhood home in Shillington, Pennsylvania is going to become a museum.
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