“Among the 457 letters in Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters, there is not one love letter,” begins Stefany Anne Goldberg’s review of the author’s collected–and often outright misanthropic–correspondence.
Joseph Roth’s Letters
Everything Flows
Have you seen this stunning map which shows "the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US?" It's positively hypnotic.
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Believing in the Bookternet
Recommended Viewing: Year in Reading alumna Rachel Fershleiser's TED talk "Why I heart the Bookternet" on building reading communities through the internet. "The more tools that we get for communication and collaboration, the more we're taking reading and writing — these really solitary pursuits — and building communities around them for connection and conversation."
FictionDaily
FictionDaily tales a page from Arts and Letters Daily and posts links to pieces of fiction found online in three different categories (long, short, and genre) every day.
What a Crack-Up
Did F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Crack-Up" essays -- in which the author began to chronicle his mental collapse -- usher in and anticipate the rise of autobiographical writing in America?
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