That dictionary sitting on your bookshelf has a more scandalous past than you might think.
“The Scopes Monkey Trial of American literary culture”
Rule No. 8: Is secret.
Colson Whitehead offers eleven simple writing rules. Also check out our review of Whitehead's most recent novel, Zone One.
The Most Read Novel on Amazon
The Most Read Novel on Amazon is the Handmaid's Tale! Makes a lot of sense. Read how Amazon figured this out and the runner ups here.
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A Look at the Guantánamo Prison Library
New York Times reporter Charlie Savage set up a Tumblr dedicated to cataloging some of the books available in the Guantánamo prison library for detainees.
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Metoosexuals
At The Daily Beast, Lizzie Skurnick writes about hip fatherhood, Jonathan Safran Foer and Michael Chabon.
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Burning Yearning Being Burning Yearning
"To be awake was a thing many had dreamed of, while continuing to sleep for years, like the famous princess in her coffin of glass. Once I opened a Chinese fortune cookie that said, Some will attain their heart’s desire, alas." Revisiting this fantastic Anne Carson poem, "The Day Antonioni Came to the Asylum (Rhapsody)," over at The Paris Review. Carson's newest, Float, is due out in a couple of months.
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On the Ladyblogosphere
"Behold the ladyblogosphere," writes Molly Fischer for n+1, "for [Jezebel, The Hairpin, xojane, and Rookie] are not women’s blogs but ladyblogs, and 'lady' is their endemic verbal tic." Emily Gould's response is worth a read as well.
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