Recommended reading (and listening): “Almost Like the Blues” by Leonard Cohen.
“Almost Like the Blues”
2012 Costa Award Finalists Announced
The 2012 finalists for the Costa (formerly Whitbread) Book Awards have been anounced. In the “Novel” category, they are Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, Life! Death! Prizes! by Stephen May, The Heart Broke In by James Meek, and Days of the Bagnold Summer by Joff Winterhart. The Costa site has lists of the nominees in all categories.
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The Vertical Legacy of Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Intuitionist’
Neil Serven looks back on Colson Whitehead's debut novel, The Intuitionist, which follows an elevator inspector in a city of skyscrapers.
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Year in Viewing
Anthony Lane (New Yorker film critic, personal hero) lists ten films he liked in 2010.
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Emily Dickinson’s iPhone
Emily Dickinson would be a really annoying texter. At The Toast, Mallory Ortberg imagines what texts you would receive if Emily had your phone number.
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Brooklyn Was Mine
Paula Fox‘s ostensible review of L.J. Davis‘ A Meaningful Life in the current New York Review of Books is really (pace N1BR) a transporting memoir of Brooklyn in the ’70s.