Recommended Reading: “Whale Love” by Bobbie Ann Mason and Meg Pokrass.
New Story by Bobbie Ann Mason
The Jackal Speaks
Superagent Andrew ("The Jackal") Wylie disses the e-book and modern publishing's "wild weekend in Las Vegas approach" to book acquisition in the Wall Street Journal Magazine. But the best part is an online slide show depicting Wylie's journey from a wild-eyed hippie cabbie in 1971 to the uberwasp wheeler-dealer that he is today.
Diving Into the Wreck
It's time for a game of critic versus critic: at the Nation and the Huffington Post, respectively, Ange Mlinko and Carol Muske-Dukes consider and reconsider the poetry of Adrienne Rich.
RIP Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez has died at the age of 87. The Colombian writer was a prominent novelist, screenwriter, and journalist. He was most famous for One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The Autumn of the Patriarch and won a Nobel Prize in 1982 for his work.
Clashing Titans, old and new fashioned
Virginia Heffernan weighs in on the whole Wikipedia v. Philip Roth thing, brilliantly pitting "Anglo-American Great Man media empires" against "Polyglot Open-Source new media".
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Recommended Reading from Roxane Gay
Book Riot has compiled a list of Roxane Gay’s recommended reads via Twitter. Some of her choices include Citizen by Claudia Rankine, God Help the Child by Toni Morrison, and City on Fire by our own Garth Risk Hallberg. See more books Gay recommends in our Year in Reading column.