Recommended Reading: Year in Reading alumna Emily Gould revisits Chris Kraus’s “cult feminist classic” I Love Dick, as it appears for the first time in the UK.
Scenes from a Marriage
New Release Day Continued
A couple more big name books out in paperback this week: David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Next by James Hynes. (Thanks, Dan)
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Just Friends
For over twenty years, from the thirties through the fifties, a group of Oxford writers who called themselves The Inklings met weekly to drink, exchange ideas and read aloud their drafts. Though J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were easily their most famous members, the group had other notable figures, among them the language historian Arthur Owen Barfield. In The Chronicle of Higher Education, a history of the group.
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Highly Recommended
Some kind soul has put the title story from Alvin Levin's under-appreciated collection Love Is Like Park Avenue online for all to enjoy. That means you.
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The Eternal Mystery
Recommended reading: Jonathan Russell Clark, who's written for us many, many times before, considers "The Eternal Mystery of the Reclusive Writer" for Literary Hub.
“How enterprising of you”
A couple weeks ago, I recommended that budding Randians read this self-edifying excerpt, taken from Ayn Rand’s version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Now, Rand has penned her own version of You’ve Got Mail, again kindly published by Mallory Ortberg.
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OWS: A Poet’s Perspective
Why one poet believes that Occupy Wall Street has already won.
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Pynchon Angst
Sam Anderson hates Thomas Pynchon.
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