OK, it’s not exactly “literary,” but nevertheless I promise that “Upworthy Springfield” is worth your time.
He Linked To A Site That Wasn’t Literary. What Happened Next Will Shock You.
The Princess and the Pedlar
Recently rediscovered: a comic libretto by Raymond Chandler titled “The Princess and the Pedlar.”
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The Value of Difficulty
“When we read a book that requires that effort — when the act of reading becomes rigorous and self-aware, rather than effortless and transparent — we get to have a history with what we’ve given ourselves to, a history etched into us by the demanding friction of its difficulty.” Zoë Heller and Leslie Jamison debate whether or not we overvalue difficult literature in The New York Times.
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The Clack of Great Art
Recommended Reading: this new anthology of art created with a typewriter.
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Maybe This Is Why They Take So Long to Finish
Robert A. Caro, who releases new installments of his Lyndon B. Johnson biography at a glacial pace, is apparently also working on another project, too. It’s “not a memoir, exactly,” he says, but it does concern “how he came to write the Johnson biography and its predecessor, The Power Broker.”
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Tuesday New Release Day: Faulks, Drop Caps
New this week are A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks and the first six titles (A through F!) in Penguin’s snazzy new Penguin Drop Caps series.
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a.) Could you be living next to a chain-saw killer? One little boy’s rear-window peepshow of horror!
b.)She tried
Oops, premature “submit” I have clearly watched too many “Simpsons” episodes. This could be addictive.
b.) She tried to tell them that jazz was in her heart, but all they could say was “Cease the sax, little gal!”
c.) “They told me I could stay forever,” sobs ousted WWII vet. Sad story from Springfield’s own King Lear.
d.) Stateless. Sad stories of the undocumented animated. Where do they come from? Where are they going?
e.) OUTCAST! The horror of a Five-Fingered Freak.
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Realize mine aren’t as relentlessly perky and upbeat as true “Upworthy” candidates, but I just can’t resist the writing style!