We’re nearing the halfway point in football season (have you done your reading?), so that means it’s time to revisit one of the finest poems ever written about the game: James Wright’s “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio.”
“Gallop[ing] terribly”
Literally crowding the text
Would you buy your way into a novel? For $900 CDN you can determine the title of Daniel Perlmutter's next book. If that's a little steep for ya, $15 gets one of your sentences in there.
Talking Covers Talks Covers
Fans of our U.S. and U.K. book cover comparison should head on over to Imprint Magazine for an interview with Talking Covers founder Sean Manning.
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I “Love” This.
I'm glad someone started this blog of unnecessary quotations marks for me. (via @narrativemag).
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Spring Awakening
Virgil and the springtime mysteries of Margaret Fuller.
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New Michael Lewis Book On the Way
Michael Lewis’s next book, which is due to hit shelves in March, will be concerned with “the financial world.” And that’s really all we know about it at this point.
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At The Table
The Table 4 Writers foundation, set up in the memory of the restauranteur Elaine Kaufman, recently chose the winners of its first round of $2,000 grants for writers. The winners will be honored March 7 at the New York Athletics Club, where Gay Talese will also be recognized with a lifetime achievement award.
Keith Gessen’s Longform Podcast
n+1 editor Keith Gessen discusses how the magazine's editors "are slowing down." "We're not mad at anyone anymore," he says. "We think everything is great."
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