The Table 4 Writers Foundation, which was established in the honor of Elaine Kaufman, will award $2,000 grants for never-before-published works of fiction and non-fiction. The deadline for submissions is October 15. (h/t Bill Morris, who has written about the foundation and grant program before.)
Table 4 Grants
Make Margaret Atwood Fiction Again
"I haven’t met Drake, but I have of course met people who have met Drake. But you have to realize how o-l-d I am. I’m not likely to go to the same parties. Or many parties at all, to be frank." Junot Diaz interviews Margaret Atwood for The Boston Review. We obviously recommend you read our respective interviews with them both, too.
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Medieval Advice
Need to know how to tell if someone is or is not dead? How to leave a party gracefully? How to avoid the plague? Luckily the writers of the Middle Ages had a how-to book for everything, even if that advice does include killing bed bugs by "Spread[ing] Gun-powder, beaten small, about the crevices of your bedstead" and then lighting it.
Convergences
Recommended Reading: Andrea Denhoed on Flannery O’Connor.
Fitzgerald’s Football
"F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as one of America's greatest authors, but was he also responsible for one of football's most important strategic advances? Maybe. Possibly. Probably not." Kevin Draper writes about Fitzgerald's love and possible genius for the game.
Brave New Serial
Margaret Atwood's got a new book called Positron out, and she's going digital: the novel is being published serially via Byliner.
“Trippingly on the tongue”
"Inspired by working with Kevin Spacey, Sir Trevor Nunn has claimed that American accents are 'closer' than contemporary English to the accents of those used in the Bard's day." Take that, England!
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Duo of Thrones
Tonight, we offer A Game of Thrones, prepared two ways: for beginners, and for experts. Bon appetit.
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