June 2011
24 posts
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Philip Roth, on reading
Roth talking to Tina Brown in 2009:
To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don’t read the novel really. So I think that kind of concentration and focus and attentiveness is hard to come by — it’s hard to find huge numbers of people, large numbers of people, significant numbers of...
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: Odious and Unpleasant →
lareviewofbooks:
Tom Lutz Reading Room, New York Public Library. Glass Slide Image courtesy of NYPL Yesterday, with great pleasure, I read the epigraph to Elizabeth Gumport’s short essay on book reviews in the already venerable n+1, the literary magazine out of Brooklyn. The epigraph is from an…
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laphamsquarterly asked: The real question is: are we wearing shorts while looking at that picture?
marisagertz asked: Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport picture has been put on flickr by the Us National Archives. Just sayin'.
(Can't put a link but it's currently their most recent flickr post. also, my most recent tumblr post.)
(Can't put a link but it's currently their most recent flickr post. also, my most recent tumblr post.)
Against Reviews →
Elizabeth Gumport, against reviews, in the N1BR.
vintageanchor:
“If what I heard in your voice persists, will you drop everything and come to New York and settle down in the back room and let us hang garlands of love around your neck, day after day, until you are feeling yourself again?”
— William Maxwell to Eudora Welty, in a letter dated January 24, 1967
This is so nice!
“The advantage to writing this slack is that the writer can’t hang himself...”
– To Flavorwire’s list of 30 Harshest Author Insults, I’d like to add this one—William Gass on Jay McInerney.
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“Interactivity sabotages storytelling. There is no longer any use arguing to the...”
– Tom Bissell, over at Grantland, reviewing L.A. Noire. His book Extra Lives, which is about video games and is great, is just out in paperback.
You can now watch the BookTV vid of Micah Sifry... →
jimhanas:
“I’m still interested in good writers, but I’m not going to find them on the internet.”
— Gary Shteyngart on the internet—although these days I rarely encounter him anywhere else.
“…Because I’m not looking” must be the rest of this quote, right?
“Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
He...”
– Sarah Rides with Paul : The New Yorker (via nickdouglas)
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“We need a sympathetic community within which to realize our individuality....”
– From “The Accidental Bricoleurs,” Rob Horning’s essay on fast fashion (H&M, Uniqlo, Zara, etc.) and the internet, for n+1.
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Edna O’Brien on whether or not you can go...
www.isthebookdead.com →
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