Tom Murphy, arguably Ireland’s greatest living playwright, joins The Paris Review for an interview about his life, his influences, and his rage.
“I wanted to write about the feeling of life. Not life as an intellectual process, or a concept, but as a feeling.”
The World’s Most Powerful Editor
“I think you are abusing your power, and I find it hard to believe that you have thought it through thoroughly.” Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten, has published a front-page letter to Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook censored an iconic image from the Vietnam war. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a naked nine-year-old Kim Phúc running away from a napalm attack was deleted from a post about seven images "that changed the history of warfare.”
Tatjana Soli, author of The Lotus Eaters, wrote for us about the legacy of that infamous photo a few years back.
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Miles to Go before I Sleep
Our own Nick Ripatrazone writes for The Atlantic about the tradition of writers who love to run, from Haruki Murakami to Joyce Carol Oates. Pair with Ripatrazone’s Millions essay on writing as training.
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Who Wrote the First Mystery Novel?
"Never mind whether the butler did it. Here’s a real mystery for you: Who wrote the first detective novel?" Paul Collins at the New York Times takes another look at the usual suspects.
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Listen Carefully
Recommended Listening: Poet Rachel Zucker speaks with Erika Meitner about straight-forward poetics and poetry as a tool for social justice.
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Northrop Frye… “a prodigy whose promise was entirely fulfilled.”
The latest issue of the University of Toronto Magazine has an informative, if slightly hagiographical, tribute to the literary critic Northrop Frye. This year marks a century since his birth.
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Bro, Do You Even Read?
The Toast may be closing its doors soon, but that doesn't mean it isn't still putting out hilarious pieces. This week, it's Vape Aficionado's Guide to Finding a Token Lady-Writer, featuring such gems as: "Margaret Atwood: Because she’s good at Twitter and you forgot how to spell 'Le Guin,'" and "George Eliot: Whoops, you thought George was a dude, didn’t you? Purely accidental, but it still counts!"
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The Buffalo Prize
Hobart (who just joined Twitter) is running a new contest dubbed The Buffalo Prize. Enter for a shot at $500, or if you're feeling saucy, for the bonus $100 prize awarded to the "best cover letter ridiculing or praising contests." They're also calling for interns to join their team, too.
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I’m just gonna go ahead and assume you just don’t consider Martin McDonagh Irish.
Kati, your comment perfectly explains the need for the prescient “arguably” in Matt’s sentence — this coming from a man who laughed so heartily at The Lieutenant of Inishmore that I thought I’d be removed from the theatre.
I would debate the legitimacy of “arguably” in any case other than how you define McDonagh’s nationality. What a pugilistic adverb.