From now until August 16th, the editors of the Los Angeles Times’s Opinion section will accept poetry submissions. Their favorites will be published in the August 25th edition of the paper.
Opinions… In Verse
The Chekhov/Celebrity Quiz
At Flavorwire, test your literary (and tabloid) IQ by trying to match Chekhov’s characters with their closest celebrity counterparts.
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Penchant for Snobbery
In The Nation, Mark Oppenheimer reviews Janet Malcolm’s Forty-one False Starts, which includes the New Yorker staff writer’s early works of criticism. The problem, he writes, with her and most Western critics? “She is a snob, but wishes she weren’t.” (ICYMI: we published a review a few weeks ago.)
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Library Extension
A simple web browser extension will tell you if the book you're reading about online is available at your local library. Currently a Chrome version is available, and Firefox is on the way.
Particularly Piquant Peppers
Move over Naga Viper. There’s a new hottest pepper in town, and it's called the Carolina Reaper.
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“The Game” and Fan Fiction
Electric Literature has published a look at two new Sherlock Holmes fan fictions, "the game," and various copyright complications, which just happens to dovetail with our own Elizabeth Minkel's Year in Reading account of admitting to loving Sherlock fan fic. In fact, loving the great detective has a lot to do with writing well: as Ryan Britt puts it, successful fan fiction authors "all love Holmes and his adventures way more than the man who created the great detective thought possible. Which, today, remains the biggest cultural mystery we’ll hopefully never get tired of investigating."
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