Millions contributor Tyler Malone has created a Tumblr account dedicated to the marginalia of David Markson, whose novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress was famously passed up by 54 publishers before becoming a critical darling.
Marksonalia
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"To read something before it is accessible to all is both a privilege and an unfair advantage." Je Banach's notes on keeping the secrets of the books she writes about (e.g., Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage) are thoughtful, poignant, and tantalizingly spoiler-free.
Please (Don’t) Please Me
Callie Collins sits down with Emily Bell, the editor of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Originals, in the latest issue of Midnight Breakfast. Bell also published Lucia Berlin’s recent story collection A Manual for Cleaning Women. Bell states: “The voices I publish, they’re not trying to please their readers.”
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“No writer needs to be all the writers all the time”
Zadie Smith in conversation with Édouard Louis for the Document Journal. "Listening to the novelists Édouard Louis and Zadie Smith in conversation inspires a kind of hushed glee, a bliss familiar to eavesdroppers who encounter sublime discourse. " How can you resist?
Da Firenze
At Ploughshares, take a journey through Florence with Emily Smith (and Dante).
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Tuesday New Release Day
New this week: Gary Shteyngart's much buzzed about Super Sad True Love Story, Rick Moody's The Four Fingers of Death (another literary dystopia), and a new Roberto Bolaño collection, The Return. Bonus for GN'R fans: GN'R drummer Steven Adler's tell-all memoir My Appetite for Destruction: Sex, and Drugs, and Guns N' Roses.
Even the Editors Get Rejected
Perhaps someone should compile a Salon des Refusés of Poetry Magazine's rejected poets.
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Madame Bovary, Say Wha?
Ruth Franklin rises to the defense of much-maligned (and newly retranslated) Emma Bovary.
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Hey Nick, thanks for posting about my Markson tumblr. I’ve actually started writing a couple pieces for The Millions, wrote a review of Cesar Aira’s “Varamo” that was published here not too long ago, and Max has me working on another review now, so I’m happy for the additional exposure. Appreciate the Marksonalia love!
Thanks for the reveal! Small world. I’ve updated the post.