The Picador folks joined Tumblr recently (like we asked) and they’re making up for lost time already. They’ve already instituted something called “Sunday Sontag,” and they’ve posted a Spotify playlist comprised of 140 “contextually literary” tracks.
Picador’s Tumblr Makes Up For Lost Time
Pioneering
Recommended Reading: Ruth Graham on the uncensored memoirs of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
The Lookielikey also rises
Our heartfelt congratulations to Greg Fawcett, winner of this year's Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest. He credits his success in the competition with "dedication, timing his haircuts carefully and paying attention to the length of his beard." Looking good Greg, and all you other Papas in Miami.
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The Alligators of Abraham
You can listen to Robert Kloss read from The Alligators of Abraham, which was released last Thursday from Mud Luscious Press. The author also composed a playlist to accompany his book. The gorgeous text has been receiving much-deserved advance praise, and it's even borne a "series of texts – videos, art, stories, and more – written, filmed, cobbled together, and razed by different artists from around the literary world."
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People were not invited–they went there.
The mansion that inspired The Great Gatsby's West Egg has been privately sold, after sitting on the market for two years.
Origin Story
Over at JSTOR Daily, Tara Isabella Burton writes on historical interpretations of the Book of Genesis and literal readings of a text that had been interpreted as allegory for centuries.
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