That Kickstarter is offering more opportunities than ever to literary projects, from Coffee House Press’s Catstarter to the Joan Didion documentary to the Reading Rainbow spin-off, is indisputable. Now there’s yet another worthy cause turning to the crowd-sourcing platform in search of an audience: The Riveter, a magazine of longform journalism by women.
Kickstarting The Riveter
“Living, chattering evidence that people still care deeply about books”
How Electric Lit's Kristopher Jansma learned to stop eworrying about ebooks and love his Kindle Fire.
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Against the “Literary”
Rob Horning doesn’t like the word “literary.” Not one bit.
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The Realities of a Tiny House
"AYN: This house was built in 1835 but, as you can see, the antiquated design elements suggest the work of a second-rate architect in love with the past who never had an original thought in his wasted life." Go check out the newest episode of Ayn Rand's Objectivist House Hunters at McSweeney's.
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More on Roth
The Economist digs into the stupid "debate" over Philip Roth's International Booker win.
The Best of the Best of the Best
Lots and lots of great stories populate Longform's "Best of 2011" list.
“Speaking of Memory”
In an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Peter Birkenhead goes back to Nabokov's Speak, Memory and considers "the way our memories tell themselves to us: in hints, collisions, and rushes, overlapping, upside down, out of order." Pair with our own Garth Risk Hallberg's piece on reading Ada, or Ardor.
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