The Gallery of Lost Art is “an online exhibition that tells the stories of artworks that have disappeared,” and my-oh-my is it a doozy of an internet diversion.
The Gallery of Lost Art
Oh, Tom Drury, how I love thee.
If you're a fan of Tom Drury (and if you aren't--what's wrong with you?), you'll be excited to know that the new short film based on his short story "Path Lights" is now online at the David Lynch Foundation. The film was directed by Zachary Sluser, and stars John Hawkes.
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“The Most Popular Books of All Time”
This week in book-related infographics: Electric Literature breaks down "The Most Popular Books of All Time."
Best American Books On Sale
Pretty good deal on Amazon today: All the e-book versions of the "Best American" books are $1.99.
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Books for the Trump Era
"[T]hat might be what liberal readers needs right now: Not just portraits of the Brexit and Trump-voting domestic Other, but a clearer sense of their own worldview’s limits, blind spots, blunders and internal contradictions." The New York Times's Ross Douthat assembles a "Books for the Trump Era" reading list, including Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, Christopher Lasch's The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, and Samuel P. Huntington's Who Are We? The Challenges to American National Identity. You can also read our own review of Houellebecq's latest here.
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Poor Gatsby
The Great Gatsby debuted in 1925 to poor sales and mediocre reviews. So how did it become one of the most famous novels in America? At Slate, Cristina Hartmann explains how Fitzgerald’s opus, which netted the author royalties worth a grand total of $13 in his lifetime, went on to become a classic. Related: our own Bill Morris on a book about the novel by Sarah Churchwell. (h/t The Paris Review Daily)
400 Year of Shakespeare
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, check out 25 author’s reflections on his work. (The tube map has also been recreated in his honor.) You could also read Stefanie Peters’s thoughts on why we continue to rewrite the Bard’s stories.
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Cult Classic
Frank Stanford isn’t the most well-known American poet, but he is one of the most revered, at least according to his contemporaries. At The Rumpus, David Biespeil writes about a new collection of the poet’s work, remarking that “no American poet I have ever met regardless of disposition or poetics has disliked Frank Stanford’s poems.”
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