“Language on a daily basis is being recycled. Our students are learning the language of the old and new masters; they are taking them in, mixing their words with the language they know, creating something new. Yet something there remains. Something familiar. Something like a forgotten first kiss. Like a well-known song sung in a different language.“ Ira Sukrungruang on “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Deep Reading and Mimicry, With an Ending that Totally Plagiarizes Wallace Stevens.” After all, who doesn’t want to plagiarize Wallace Stevens?
Between Imitation and Plagiarism
Fighting for Space
Recommended Reading: London’s Feminist Library is at risk of being evicted. Broadly spoke to some of the women who are taking to the streets to save the space.
“He could easily get seasonal work as a shopping-mall Santa.”
"Mad scientist of smut" Nicholson Baker gets the New York Times treatment.
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Fun Fact: Emily’s Not Keen on Time Travel
Jason Rice interviewed our own Emily St. John Mandel yesterday. They talk about her new book, The Lola Quartet, which celebrates its One Day Old birthday today.
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So Far So Good
Recommended reading (and reading, and reading): Oyster has listed the "100 Best Books of the Decade So Far," led by Teju Cole's Open City, which was reviewed for the Millions here.
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Jack White, Publisher
Recommended reading: Lauren O'Neal writes for the LA Review of Books about analog music, Millennial poetry and Jack White's foray into publishing.
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James Franco + n+1
It's time for another literary James Franco sighting. This time he's popping up in the table of contents for the next issue of n+1.