The mansion that inspired The Great Gatsby‘s West Egg has been privately sold, after sitting on the market for two years.
People were not invited–they went there.
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Back to the Future
Photographer Irina Werning‘s “Back to the Future” series recreated and updated various childhood portraits. Its sequel, “Back to the Future II“, is just as awesome. (Note: One or two images per series are NSFW)
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New Khaled Hosseini Novel Coming in May
This just in: Khaled Hosseini, author of mega-bestseller The Kite Runner will have a new novel out in May, And the Mountains Echoed.
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Lorin Stein Named Editor of the Paris Review
Garth recently posited that Dave Eggers would be a great, if counter-intuitive, replacement for Philip Gourevitch at the Paris Review. Instead, the Paris Review has announced today the equally admirable appointment of FSG editor Lorin Stein to head up the venerable literary magazine. The announcement.
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