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
“Death to the Minibar!”
Anyone who travels a lot will enjoy Dubravka Ugresic's essay on hotel minibars. As a matter of fact, just about anyone will enjoy this essay regardless of how often they travel.
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Franzen on Film
The Corrections might never make it to screen, but Jonathan Franzen's New Yorker essay on songbird poaching, "Emptying the Skies" (behind the paywall), is already a documentary. The film follows a group of bird lovers trying to save the endangered animals and even includes an interview with Franzen. Although the documentary just found a distributor, there is no word on an official release date. Until then, here's the trailer.
A Day in the Life of a Literary Agent
“There really is no average day in the life of a literary agent,” writes Mark Gottlieb in his attempt to describe an average day in the life of a literary agent.
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Guerilla Reading
Does literature belong on the streets? Thanks to some forward-thinking initiatives like the Coffee Sleeves Conversation at Coffee House Press and the Chicago-based project "Poem While You Wait," (in which poets stationed around the city produce original, on-demand poems for five dollars a piece) literature is finding its way to the masses.
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We’ve published essays before on the importance of good grammar, but it’s rare that something comes along that illustrates its value so clearly. A couple weeks ago, the Times published a blurb about This is the Story of a Happy Marriage, a recent essay collection by Ann Patchett, that led to the author sending in what may be the best correction of all time. For more on Patchett's work, you could read Kevin Charles Redmon on her book State of Wonder.
Homesteading Alone
So you’ve bought the books on Urban Homesteading, but what you really want is to escape completely and build your own comfy cabin in the woods. Here are three books by Homesteaders who "go it alone."
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The Steamin’ Demon
“Every atom of my blood, form’d in the soil of this earth, runs hot / As I wheel through this snaked monster of steel, The Steamin’ Demon.” Ride The Steamin’ Demon at Six Flags with Walt Whitman. Pair with our own Michael Bourne’s piece on how Whitman saved his life.
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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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