Recommended Reading: A very long (and informative) piece on Tom Vanderbilt’s new book, You May Also Like, and why people enjoy the things they do in the Age of the Internet.
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Print’s Not Dead
Instead of Craigslist, the people of Berlin use fliers and lampposts to "send romantic messages to strangers they've seen on a train."
“Tongue-in-Cheek Tocqueville”
"'So your idea is to drive across America and write about it without talking to a single American?' 'Yes.'" Karl Ove Knausgaard travels North America as “a tongue-in-cheek Tocqueville” for the New York Times Magazine. Pair with his piece for The Millions, "The View from My Window is a Constant Reminder," and with Jonathan Callahan's reading of Knausgaard's My Struggle.
Must be all that Schadenfreude
Eating your manuscript, deliberately slicing open your own head during a reading, titling your work "Baby Fucker." These stunts are par for the course during the competition for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, a prestigious German literary award.
Audible Writers
Apropos of my literary YouTube posts, our own Mark O'Connell riffs on the speaking voice of several authors.
The Illustrated Giant
Recommended reading: Horn! reviews The Buried Giant for The Rumpus. Pair with our own Lydia Kiesling's take on the novel here.
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