Recommended Reading: On how old age is represented in literature.
The End of the Story
Take a Look, It’s In An e-book
Reading Rainbow frontman LeVar Burton plans to launch "an educational iPad app that lets children explore topics of interest."
Outraged over Outrage
When did Twitter turn into a place of public shame, outrage, and apology? Alexander Chee examines the changing culture in an essay for Dame Magazine. "Oh, Internet, place of the ultimate writerly paradox, where things you write quickly for little or no money last forever." Our own Mark O'Connell explored something similar in his New Yorker essay on the public humiliation of regrettable tweets.
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Aftermath
"So what now? Well, first and foremost, we need to feel." The New Yorker has essays from sixteen writers including Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz, Mary Karr, and Gary Shteyngart on the causes for and effects of Trump's win.
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Belladonna* Prose Event
File under events you won’t want to miss: Kate Zambreno hosts her second Belladonna* Prose Event this Tuesday in New York, featuring three leading ladies of innovative lit. Renee Gladman, Danielle Dutton, and Amina Cain will discuss the walker as essayist, flaneuring through urban space, and skirting the margins of genre. 7:30pm, at Dixon Place.