The dynamic walking duo Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton take to the streets of Brooklyn again, this time to talk to moms about their memorable motherhood moments.
“For the Moms in All of Us”
Dispatch from North Korea
Recommended Reading: A short story collection by an anonymous North Korean author was smuggled out of the country and will be published in English next year.
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Spiegel & Grau turns to indies for help
Shaken by scathing reviews from The New York Times and The Washington Post, Yann Martel's publisher turns to independent bookstores for help.
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Dial G
“Genius” is a loaded term. Its application usually says more about the person making the judgment than it does about the genius in question. In The Guardian, Sophie Hannah argues that the term isn’t used enough to describe one writer in particular: Agatha Christie. You could also read Daniel Friedman on the terrible secret of all crime fiction.
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Literature on Tape
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Library of Congress has made 50 recordings from the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape available online. Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriela Mistral, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and others read from their work.
Women and Criticism
Tonight: "Sharp: A Discussion of Women and Criticism," a panel at the Housing Works Bookstore in New York featuring writers Kate Bolick, Laura Miller, Michelle Orange, and more. It begins at 7 p.m.; more information can be found here.
Dear White People
"[S]ometimes, one of the best ways to better understand racism is to just pick up a book." As part of a recent tweet about his availability for racial consultation, Colson Whitehead recommended an evergreen Huffington Post piece entitled "16 Books About Race That Every White Person Should Read", a list that includes Claudia Rankine's Citizen, T. Geronimo Johnson's Welcome to Braggsville, and The Sellout by Paul Beatty, which we reviewed here. We hope he's collecting referral fees.
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Computer Fables
According to The Guardian, "researchers in Australia have developed a computer program which writes its own fables, complete with moral." No word yet on whether they're any good.
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Train Dreams
Wes Anderson really likes trains, and not just any trains -- the director of The Grand Budapest Hotel is a big fan of riding on Amtrak. “It's one thing to be stuck together for the long haul to New Zealand in the upper deck of a 747 for 16 hours," he told a writer for the company’ s blog, "but it's an altogether different matter to hit the dining car three meals a day for two and a half days running onboard the Southwest Chief." This may be a good time to read our own Nick Ripatrazone's essay on writers and trains.
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