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
Not for Us
It’s easy to find essays targeted at writers that argue that rejection isn’t really that bad. In her new book, How to Not Write, Lisa Carver takes the argument a step further, as she says that not only does rejection not hurt you, it “frees you” and “facilitates action.” At The Rumpus, an excerpt from the book.
Trigger Warning: Literature
Students at the University of California Santa Barbara, Rutgers, Oberlin, and others have been requesting “trigger warning” labels on literature from The Great Gatsby to Huck Finn. In The Guardian, University College London Professor John Mullan snipes, “You might as well put a label on English literature saying: warning – bad stuff happens here.”
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The Future is Now
The various issues that were delaying the ebook release of The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books have finally been resolved (ironic, I know). The book is now available for Kindle, Apple devices and assorted other e-readers. Enjoy!
Biological Music
“Seaquence is an experiment in musical composition. Adopting a biological metaphor, you can create and combine musical lifeforms resulting in an organic, dynamic composition.”
Write / Right / Night / Owl
Kathryn Schulz’s meditation on insomnia, on staying up late and writing deep into the night.
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The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York
This September, OR Books will publish Tales of Two Cities, an anthology of short fiction focused on economic inequality in New York City. Among its contributors are some familiar names: Junot Díaz, Lydia Davis, Dave Eggers, Colum McCann, Téa Obreht, Zadie Smith, and Teju Cole. The volume will also be illustrated by Molly Crabapple, whose Occupy Wall Street portraits earned critical acclaim in 2012.
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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