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
Stranger Than Fiction
"Emily Brontë teaches us that fiction is not defined by what an author has done, but what an author has felt. To write is often to observe, not necessarily to experience. It is possible to be strong, independent, and still be at home; there is nothing limiting or weak about the 'domestic' life. Daily life is not to be avoided—in fact, it can be our most fruitful source of truth." These and other helpful life lessons from the Brontë sisters over at The Daily Beast. How did the sisters even get their start as writers, anyway?
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Tuesday New Releases
David Remnick's biography of President Obama, The Bridge is out. (The Times explained how Remnick finds time to run the New Yorker and write a 700-page biography of a sitting president.) Also new: Another chronicle of the collapse, The End of Wall Street by talented financial journalist Roger Lowenstein; Nobel laureate Jose Saramago's "blog book" The Notebook; another in the posthumously published oeuvre of Irène Némirovsky, Dimanche and Other Stories; the latest from A.L. Kennedy, What Becomes; and Tom Rachman's touted debut The Imperfectionists.
Go Cardinals?
How's your NCAA bracket doing? Busted? Well, maybe you should've picked your teams based on which ones turn the highest profit. The Atlantic analyzed the financial data and, voilà, their bracket correctly predicted nine of the teams in the Sweet Sixteen.
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Sargent and Friends
In the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, Jean Strouse brings us inside John Singer Sargent’s inner circle. The exhibition, “Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends,” is on view at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art until October 4th. You could also read Edra Ziesk’s piece on what makes a friend.
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Broken Embraces
Catch it while you can: Charlie Rose's hour-long interview with Pedro Almodóvar and his muse, Penélope Cruz, touches on character, confidence, and control, and is currently available online. Almodóvar's latest film, Broken Embraces, which I saw last summer in Madrid sans subtitles, was so visually stunning and well-acted that despite my meager translation the film enthralled. With a proper translation, it should be ravishing.
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Potent Potables: Presidential Edition
The White House recently released its beer recipe, and that’s swell and all, but for a truly patriotic potable, check out the “Small Beer” brewed for George Washington in 1789.
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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