We know you’re eagerly following our Year in Reading series, but we want you to participate, too! Our own Nick Moran has got the details up in a gif-filled Tumblr post.
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Approaching Your Literary Heroes
"Why can’t we keep our literary heroes where they belong, at the top of the bookshelf next to all the others? And why must we ache for their approval, their admiration, their love?" Alex Gilvarry posts about writers who dare to approach their literary heroes for the Paris Review Daily.
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Bright Eyes
After the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska died fighting in the trenches, Ezra Pound wrote a book about his work, inspiring a wave of interest that brought the sculptor to prominence. The book came out in 1916, a year after Gaudier-Brzeska’s death, and kicked off a succession of great books that tackle his sculptures. Yasmine Seale writes about their legacy in the LRB.
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Emily Gould’s Mysterious Book Project
Emily Gould, former Gawker editor, author of And the Heart Says Whatever, proprietor of the literary cooking show Cooking the Books, appears poised to launch a new literary venture, Emily Books. So says The Observer.
On Death and Crows
Max Porter's Death Is the Thing With Feathers is a bizarre, beautiful book. Over at The Literary Hub, he talks death, writing, and musical theater with Catherine Lacey. Porter's book came highly recommended by Garth Risk Hallberg in his 2015 Year in Reading for The Millions.
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Comics on the Big-Screen
It takes decades to build up a great superhero, but only one bad movie to tear him down. Den of Geek explores the downside of comic book adaptations.
Carl Köhler in Toronto
The University of Toronto now has a webpage up for its current exhibition "Beyond the Words: Author Portraits by Carl Köhler." See some of Köhler's remarkable portraits of artists and intellectuals and read about him here.
Imagining My Way In
Recommended (Heartbreaking) Reading: On a father's suicide and a son's journey to learn a bit about the life of the man he hardly even knew.
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