Here’s some rare footage of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera hanging out with Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova in 1938. Here’s an awesome quote from Kahlo: “I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.” And finally, here’s a picture of Frida that’s even more awesome than both of those things.
Tres Fridas para el miércoles
Influential Books
The Library of Congress has published an updated list of the most influential books in America after hearing responses from the public.
Hemingway Hijinks
Just in case you didn't know, Mallory Ortberg gives you ways to tell if you're in a Hemingway novel at The Toast. "Everyone you know respects you. This disgusts you."
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The Darker Side of Jack London
“The United States has a startling ability to take its most angry, edgy radicals and turn them into cuddly eunuchs.” Johann Hari reviews James L. Haley’s new biography Wolf: The Lives of Jack London, at Slate.
Against “Context”
Recommended Reading: Robert Silvers defines Instagrams, and also discusses his tenure with the New York Review of Books as well as the publication’s raison d'être.
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A Narrative Made Up of Many Narratives
Elizabeth Karp-Evans interviews How to Read a Novelist author John Freeman about editing, American narratives, and his goals for Freeman’s.
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Two More for the Wish List
At BOMB, Danielle Dutton speaks with me about her new press Dorothy, a publishing project, which just published two books you'll want to add to your wish list, Renee Gladman's Event Factory and Barbara Comyns' Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead.