Recommended Reading: this graphic short story by Ben Nadler and Alyssa Berg.
“An American train can’t help but dream of the West”
Now That’s Will Power
How dedicated is Robert Caro to his task of identifying and faithfully portraying the character of Lyndon Johnson? So dedicated that he turned down free tickets to see Bryan Cranston’s play about the 36th President of the United States of America.
‘Tis the season
'Tis the season for book gifting and sales! Danielle Dutton's Dorothy, a publishing project, is offering a special holiday deal on its two seasons of terrific books.
●
●
Reading Lolita at Twelve
At the Paris Review Daily, Nick Antosca reminisces on reading Lolita at 12: “Who among my seventh-grade classmates, I wondered with a frisson, was such a creature? What girl had that ‘soul-shattering, insidious charm’ that, while invisible to me, made the antennae of certain adult males tremble?”
●
●
New Richard Powers Story Available As an eBook
National Book Award-Winning author of The Echo Maker Richard Powers has a new story out, "Genie", as an ebook original.
●
●
Looking at Selma
"A film based on a historical subject, even a beautifully shot one, can remind us without meaning to that although reading in the US is a minority activity, the book is still the only medium in which you can make a complicated argument." Darryl Pinckney writes about "Some Different Ways of Looking at Selma" for the New York Review of Books. Pair with our own Bill Morris's Millions review of the film.
●
●
Born Weird
Meet the man who calls his own fans "scum," R. Crumb. Crumb first rose to prominence after the 1968 debut of Zap Comix, the first of the majorly successful "underground comix" publications. His work with legendary poet Charles Bukowski is worth taking a look.
●
●
Book Burning Reimagined
"In an ironic twist, Super Terrain, a publisher in France, has created a new edition of Bradbury’s classic that actually requires extreme heat in order to be read." The prototype copy of Fahrenheit 451, which looks fully blacked-out until you apply heat, may be available to the general book-buying public in 2018. Check out: an essay about Ray Bradbury from our archives.