Recommended Reading: Adam Shatz on Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission.
Les Mosquees
McCarthy’s Inspiration
Cormac McCarthy is inspired by scientists, but did you know the author inspires drone doom bands?
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Retreat with Eliot
Looking for a New England writer's retreat? Perhaps you could stay in T. S. Eliot's childhood summer home.
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Scream for ‘The Scream’
A recent study by the American Psychological Association finds "people are more likely to be moved and intrigued by abstract paintings if they have just experienced a good scare."
Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask
At FiveChapters this week, you can read an excerpt of Sam Lipsyte's forthcoming novel, The Ask.
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Stranger Danger
"When someone asks me how I know someone and I say 'the Internet,' there is often a subtle pause, as if I had revealed we’d met through a benign but vaguely kinky hobby, like glassblowing class, maybe. The first generation of digital natives are coming of age, but two strangers meeting online is still suspicious..." Ah, the halcyon days of 2004 and internet anonymity.