Remember when Esquire released their not-so-great list of eighty books every man should read? Well, they have amended their list to eighty books every person should read, asking advice from “eight female literary powerhouses” including Roxane Gay, Michiko Kakutani and Lauren Groff. Our own Janet Potter recommends twenty-eight books you should read if you want to.
Reading Lists Amended
My Dear Antlers
Ladette Randolph began the Writers and their Pets series on the Ploughshares blog in large part to celebrate her beloved dog Sally. It didn't take long, however, for the series to expand, which eventually led to this week’s entry about Nina Mukerjee Furstenau’s pet elk.
More Marginalia
Sam Anderson's brilliant Year in Marginalia inspires MobyLives to announce the "Melville House Marginalia Contest."
“Rainbow Potato Day” Has a Nice Ring
Gaia, Pale Blue Dot, Lonely Planet, etc... It's time for a new addition to Earth's list of aliases: the rainbow potato. A new map of our planet's gravity field reveals the variations in gravitational pull depending on your geographic location.
New James Ellroy Story
Legendary crime writer James Ellroy has a new story out for sale in ebookstores: "Shakedown".
Tuesday New Release Day: Dyer, Aira, Wilson, Iyer
Zona, Geoff Dyer's book about Tarkovsky's film Stalker, is out today. Also hitting shelves are César Aira's Varamo, Adam Wilson's Flatscreen, and Lars Iyer's Dogma. We were looking forward to all four of these books to start the year.
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