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The World According to Junot
"There’s a deep tendency in our society to view mainstream status quo literature as having no politics, which is completely untrue. It has a very strong political value; it just happens to be conservative." Junot Díaz drops some knowledge in an interview with Vox. Pair with his Millions Interview from a few years back.
“Other creative uses for my fuzzy matter”
Unfamiliar Fishes author Sarah Vowell steps up to bat for this month’s Believer advice column, Sedaratives. She fields questions concerning librarian crushes and dryer lint.
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Writing the Self
Laura Bennett writes for Slate about how personal essays are taking over the internet. “I think there is just a very fine line between providing a platform for these writers and exploiting them,” says one editor.
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The Nobel Will Return in 2019
"These elements of scandal, by now familiar in the #MeToo era, claimed an unusual casualty on Friday: The Nobel Prize in Literature, the world’s most prestigious accolade for writing." In the wake of a sex abuse scandal, The Swedish Academy announced it will postpone this year's award until next year when they will name two winners. In the meantime, maybe we should all mull over the problem with prestigious prizes.
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The Church of Scientology vs. The New Yorker
Last February, everyone was talking about Lawrence Wright's epic New Yorker profile of Paul Haggis and The Church of Scientology. But now, as The New York Times reports, the Church has released Freedom, a 51-page retaliatory glossy with DVD accompaniment.
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Tuesday New Releases
A big week for new fiction. Ian McEwan's latest novel Solar is out. Kakutani just called it his "funniest novel yet." Also now apparently available (despite its late April pub date) is the latest in the long line posthumously published works by Roberto Bolaño, Antwerp, a slim volume that has been described as both a prose poem and a crime novel. Deborah Eisenberg's big new volume of collected stories is also out today, as is Rachel Cusk's The Bradshaw Variations. Hilary Mantel is a fan of the latter. And finally, The Lotus Eaters, a debut novel from sometime Millions contributor Tatjana Soli.
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Niki Sava’s review has the longest sentences this side of Thomas Bernhard! I was reading it aloud to my wife and gave up because I ran out of oxygen.