Skip the overpriced coffee today and treat yourself to the entire Hunger Games trilogy (on Kindle) for the low, low price of $5.
Hunger Games on a Lean Budget
You Should Be Writing
Sometimes we just need a gentle little reminder. Here are some love letters to you from all of your unfinished writing, who would like to propose a little ménage à trois with you and your editor. Last year’s iteration of the series is also well-worth a revisit.
On Equity in Publishing
Over at Paper Darts, Rachel Charlene Lewis argues that editors must be held accountable for the issue of diversity in publishing. As she explains it, “The fun part about focusing instead on the role of editors is that there is an answer—we need more diverse editors, and we need editors who do the work.”
You’re Invited
We have discussed the gender gap in literature more than once. At McSweeney’s, you’re invited to an all-male, all-white literary panel. Sounds fun.
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Ray Bradbury Passes Away
Ray Bradbury, author of such classics as Fahrenheit 451, has passed away at the age of 91, reports io9. I’ll always remember the first time I read The Veldt (PDF), and being scared out of my adolescent mind.
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Didion’s Perfect Synthesis
“Many writers write vexed introspection, or detail-oriented reporting, or counterintuitive cultural commentary, or lifestyle journalism. But so far only Didion has done all four in perfect synthesis, a prose that, at its best, can fire on every cylinder and work on multiple fields of the imagination at once.” In support of the Kickstarter project for the documentary on Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Nathan Heller looks back over Didion’s writing career, her “imaginatively seductive” nonfiction writing and her carefully constructed confessionalism in a piece for Vogue.
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Return of the Literary Magazine
“If the novel is struggling in this new environment, what of literary magazines? Long extinct? The opposite: literary magazines are getting popular again.” Guardian documents the resurgence of the literary magazine, thanks to the internet.
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Teachable Moments
Lots of writers have stories about creative writing classes that changed their lives. The remembrance of the pivotal class is a mini-genre in itself. At The Rumpus, Warren Adler writes about his own life-changing experience, looking back on a class he took at the New School all the way back in 1949.
Why would you shill for this garbage? Aren’t there are enough people shilling for it already? You need to get in and help?
You must be a joy at parties, David.
You must be too.
“Hey, Nick, how are you?”
“Great, great. Hey, David, did you know you can buy the entire Hunger Games trilogy for $5?”
“Uh, no.”
“Yeah, yeah, $5 bucks! Can you believe it?”
“Sounds great.”
“So are you guys going to do it?”
“Do what?”
“Buy the Hunger Games trilogy? For only $5?”
“I don’t know. Maybe. First I was thinking about getting a beer.”
“Fuck beer! I’m talking about the Hunger Games trilogy, man! For only $5!”
“I’ll check that out when I get home.”
“But why? You can check it out now.”
“I don’t know.”
“What, you don’t like the Hunger Games?”
“I’ve never read it.”
“You’ve never read the Hunger Games? Are you too good for the Hunger Games?”
“No.”
“You think it’s only for tweeners?”
“Well.”
“It’s not. It’s for everyone.”
“Okay.”
“Don’t be snob.”
“I’m not.”
“Yes you are.”
“I’m really not trying to be a snob. I swear.”
“Then buy the Hunger Games trilogy for only $5.”
“I will.”
“Now.”
“Now?”
“Do it right now. Elitist.”
“But I already have a lot of books at home that I haven’t read. My nightstand is about to collapse.”
“This is for the Kindle, man.”
“I don’t have a Kindle.”
“You don’t?”
“No.”
“What the fuck is wrong with you?”
“I just, I don’t know, I haven’t had the extra cash.”
“You go to Starbucks every morning, right?”
“Well, yes.”
“How much you spend?”
“$5.”
“If you stopped going to Starbucks for a month you could not only afford a Kindle, but probably the Hunger Games trilogy, too.”
“But I like my coffee, Nick.”
“Fuck your coffee!”
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