Okay, so earlier this week I mentioned Emily Nussbaum‘s excellent profile of Lena Dunham for New York Magazine. Now Lorrie Moore‘s written one too, for The New Yorker blog. The short piece, as you might imagine, is a near perfect meeting of author and subject; who could be better at writing about Girls?
Even more Girls
No Lie
Everybody lies, or so the saying goes. But how long have we known this was true? At Slate, Katy Waldman reviews a new history of lying, delving into the knotty philosophy behind efforts to excuse deceit. You could also read our own Edan Lepucki and Janet Potter on deceit as it pertains to Gone Girl.
A Narrative Made Up of Many Narratives
Elizabeth Karp-Evans interviews How to Read a Novelist author John Freeman about editing, American narratives, and his goals for Freeman’s.
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Huck Finn, Improved
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has identified some additional ways in which Huck Finn might be cleaned up for today's delicate readers.
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Wardrobe A-Z
No idea what to wear to your next reading? Need to know the best sock pattern to wear while discussing magical realism? Want to coordinate your nail polish to your Amazon ranking? Buzzfeed's here to help with this "Illustrated A-Z Guide to Author Wardrobe Staples."
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A Hypothetical Country
You never need an excuse to read new words written by Edwidge Danticat, but in case you did, here's an excerpt from her introduction to the forthcoming edition of James Baldwin's classic, semi-autobiographical novel Go Tell It On A Mountain.
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Modern Anxiety
"I think dystopian novels are really about present anxiety, aren’t they?" Chang-rae Lee said in an interview for the Daily Beast's "How I Write" series. His dystopian novel, On Such a Full Sea, was part of our 2014 book preview.
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Very Brief Respites from the Darkness
Want to learn filmmaking from a self-proclaimed "soldier of cinema"? Then sign up for a class with Werner Herzog. The enigmatic director, whose films include Grizzly Man and Fitzcarraldo, announced he'll be teaching a course in the summer through the online provider Masterclass.