Ur-Road Movie
Not His Best Work
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I Wrote, Yes, But Not That
Uh-oh: Hemingway may not have written his famous six-word story.
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Like a Prayer
Thirty years after its initial publication, Don DeLillo’s White Noise is still every bit the hilarious, uncannily prescient classic that everyone believed it was. White nailed the whole “America poisoned by reality and the humming glow of computer screens” angle better than almost anyone. For more DeLillo, here’s what its like to re-read White Noise.
Ould Soul
You may have heard that the actor Peter O’Toole passed away in London on Saturday. As a tribute, Longform republished a 1963 profile of O'Toole by Gay Talese, who accompanied the Lawrence of Arabia star on a trip to Ireland.
I’ma read I’ma read I’ma read
Hip-hop lyrics repurposed as book blurbs. Also, if Ron Swanson blurbed books. And of course, our own history of the blurb.
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