Recommended Listening: David Naimon interviews Ursula K. Le Guin about her latest poetry collection, Late in the Day. Pair with Paul Morton’s Millions interview with the author.
The Science of Poetry
The Perils of Being a Hermit
It might not be a good idea to tell this to bookish readers, but it looks like loneliness can kill you.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Hensher, Smith, Morgenstern, Southgate
Booker-snubbed, but still widely anticipated, Philip Hensher's King of Badgers is out today. As are Ali Smith's There But for The, Erin Morgenstern's uber-hyped debut The Night Circus, and The Taste of Salt by Martha Southgate, who wrote here about writers' work getting better as they get older.
The Masters Review Submissions are Open
Submissions have opened for The Masters Review. Ten short stories written by emerging writers will be published in their latest anthology. Amy Hempel will judge the submissions, and the winners will receive a total of $5,000.
Combing through Gay Talese’s Laundry…Sort of
Remember that preview for Death to Smoochy, where the voice-over proclaimed, "From the twisted mind of Danny DeVito?" Me neither. But if twisty minds are your thing, you should check out this page from Gay Talese's outline for the classic "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," written on a shirt cardboard. (Remember shirt cardboards? Yeah... Me neither.)
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The Man Who Clothed the World
"No one took this further, with more imagination and daring...At a time when American groups would often dress down—affluent suburban kids disguised as Appalachian farmers or Canadian lumberjacks - Bowie quite deliberately dressed up." David Bowie's sartorial legacy.
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Coming Soon: Beautiful Ruins
Todd Field, who directed In the Bedroom and Little Children, is going to bring Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins to the big screen. The book was a big favorite among this year’s Year In Reading contributors.
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