Don DeLillo’s first short story collection, The Angel Esmerelda, is out this week, as is Magdalena Tulli’s genre-defying In Red. New in paperback are Cynthia Ozick’s Foreign Bodies and Steve Martin’s An Object of Beauty.
Tuesday New Release Day: DeLillo, Tulli, Ozick, Martin
Hitchens on Bin Laden
Christopher Hitchens has a new 5,000-word piece out today on Osama bin Laden in Kindle Single form.
Just Like, “Gross”
"excited to get over you by being obsessed with somebody who doesn't want me." Poetic Twitter accounts are all the rage. Over at The New Yorker, Haley Mlotek takes an in-depth look at one account in particular that is toeing the line between dark humor and debilitating sadness, @SoSadToday.
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The Beat Drops And Rises Again
Scott Plagenhoef tracks electronica's Phoenix-like trajectory from its overhyped beginning in the 90's through its contemporary influence on folks like Skrillex.
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Writers and Their Snacks
Franz Kafka liked to drink milk as he wrote. Walt Whitman liked a breakfast of cold meat and oysters. Marcel Proust was an espresso addict. This info graphic from The New York Times raises the question: what do you snack on as you write? You might also want to snack as you read that article, so check out our own Lydia Kiesling's piece from last April.
Rape-Rape
Jenny Diski's personal take on Roman Polanski and rape, at the London Review of Books.
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Just a Little Sympathy
Recommended Reading: Millions contributor Kaya Genc's review of The Circle by Dave Eggers. (You could also read our own Lydia Kiesling’s review.)