A new Dr. Seuss manuscript has been discovered “stuffed in a 1962 issue of TV Guide.” Ruben Bolling (of Tom the Dancing Bug) has What Pie Should I Buy?, a story based on the author’s shopping list, at Boing Boing.
Manuscript Shopping
The Immortal Book
Not-so-breaking news: Books are the best way to store information. CDs, flash memory, hard drives, and other digital storage devices aren't nearly as durable as good old fashioned paper. So the next time someone says you have too many books, just say it's your attempt at immortality.
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Bingo!
Your guide to writerly rejection. With bonus bingo card!
Gastronomy
It’s not hard to find studies of the connection between creativity and alcohol. It’s a connection which great minds have remarked upon for centuries. But what’s less remarked upon is a more everyday relationship -- the connection between great writing and food. In The New York Review of Books, Patricia Storace reads Sandra M. Gilbert's The Culinary Imagination. (Related: Stephanie Bernhard tries out Hemingway’s recipes.)
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I want to feel what I feel. Even if it’s not happiness
Toni Morrison gives a devastating interview in The Guardian.
Zbigniew Herbert on Leonardo da Vinci
With the publication of Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert’s The Collected Prose: 1948-1998 this week, the New York Review of Books Blog posts his essay on Leonardo da Vinci.
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The Arrangements
The New York Times Book Review commissioned a work of fiction about the election from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She chose to write about Melania Trump. If you can handle more Trump, check out Greg Chase’s portrait of a Trump supporter, based on Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury.
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