It might not be a good idea to tell this to bookish readers, but it looks like loneliness can kill you.
The Perils of Being a Hermit
Punctuation Party
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Inside the Mind of a Book Critic
"A book critic working today must contend with a world in which more diverse voices are heard and the traditional gatekeepers have less power to enforce conformity." LitHub interviewed Kate Tuttle, the president of the National Book Critics Circle, about literary criticism. Read our own Emily St. John Mandel on bad reviews.
New Releases: The Classics
With the frenzied holiday season underway, there aren't many new releases to look at this week, but there are some newly reissued classics hitting shelves. NYRB Classics has put out Alien Hearts by Guy de Maupassant and Everything Flows by Vasily Grossman. Vintage, meanwhile, has smart looking new editions of a pair of Somerset Maugham books: The Narrow Corner and A Writer's Notebook.
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Tweet to Win
Electric Literature and Colson Whitehead are holding a Twitter contest. Best tweet on the theme #stuffmymusesays wins a Sony Reader.
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Martin Amis in The Globe and Mail
Martin Amis is interviewed in The Globe and Mail: "All my novels are feminist from about 1980 on."
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