Remember, everybody. Running with the Olympic torch is temporary, but a misspelled tattoo is forever.
Oylmpics: A Cautionary Tale
Snowbound
Recommended Reading: Daniel Arnold’s Nervous Breakdown self-interview, which follows an excerpt of his new story collection, Snowblind.
Homecoming
Inaugural poet Richard Blanco talks to NPR about the experience.
The Housewife Novel
Recommended Reading: On the history of literature about housewives, from Madame Bovary to Dept. of Speculation.
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Joyless
Poor Emily Schultz. Her debut novel is getting trashed on Amazon -- not because it’s a bad novel, but because a number of reviewers have confused her with Stephen King. (It doesn’t help that her magazine also shares a name with King’s novel.)
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The Sentences of one ZS.
Last night I went to see Zadie Smith read and chat at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre. I wrote a little #LitBeat about it, which makes it officially NW day at The Millions, given today's main page review.