When you’ve exhausted the marriage playlist, try listening to the top ten most mentioned songs in books, via Publisher’s Weekly.
Smells Like Lit Spirit
Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz in Conversation
Recommended Viewing: Toni Morrison spoke with Junot Díaz at the New York Public Library last week, and the organizers were good enough to record the entire conversation and put it online. The talk begins at the 40:09 mark, so you can either fast forward or click this link right here.
It’s Not the Spectacles and Pageantry…
Dan Brown gets D.C. wrong, says Slate. (But isn't this just another way of saying that it belongs with almost every other narrative, literary or televisual, ever concocted about the Diamond District?)
SUNY Buffalo’s Electronic Poetry Center
Recommended Reading: Just about every poet listed on SUNY Buffalo’s Electronic Poetry Center, but particularly the work of my former creative writing professor, Paolo Javier. His page was added two days ago.
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V. S. Naipaul talks Reading, Writing, The Arab Spring, and Wodehouse
Among the many quotable and occasionally perplexing lines in this interview with V. S. Naipual is this one, which the Bend In The River author drops upon hearing that his interviewer, Isaac Chotiner, is a fan of P. G. Wodehouse: “I can’t read Wodehouse. The thought of, shall we say, facing three or four months of nothing but Wodehouse novels fills me with horror.”
How Animals Think
Recommended reading: "Can Fiction Show Us How Animals Think?" Or is the realist novel the wrong form for exploring "the profoundly foreign interior lives of animals?"
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Friday Night Filibusters
Going Clear author Lawrence Wright is adapting his play, Sonny’s Last Shot, to develop an HBO series about “the crazy, brutal world of Texas politics,” reports Deadline.
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