Your daily Canada: Michael LaPointe wonders what happened to the genre of CanLit.
Writing Home
A literary magazine best served cold.
Break out your book of grudges because River Styx literary magazine has decided on the theme for their next issue: Revenge.
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“Louisiana’s heat is inescapable and aggressive.”
The Oxford American just unlocked “Dixie Zen,” Sam Anderson’s piece on Louisiana summers. Last January, Anderson wrote one of the most popular articles in Millions history.
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Constantly Questioning with Tanaïs
Tanaïs discusses their memoir, In Sensorium, in which they examine alternate histories and universes of memories and scent.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Wright, Santoro, Black
Lawrence Wright’s exposé of Scientology, Going Clear, is out today. Also out are The Boy by Lara Santoro and debut novel The Drowning House by Elizabeth Black. Our recently published Most Anticipated books of 2013 has much more about what’s still to come this year.
Greatest Geek Books
These are the nine greatest geek books of all time, according to Wired readers.
DFW Details
Craig Fehrman digs up and posts the Details‘ 1996 profile of David Foster Wallace that is mentioned a few times in Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself but has until now not been available online.
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