Weekend Bites: Loving Paul Murray, Dueling Covers, Bad Jobs in Literature, and More

At Largehearted Boy: Paul Murray (Skippy Dies) picks Nation of Ulysses and Nick Cave for his Book Notes entry.  Largehearted Boy calls the book “one of the funniest novels of the year.” At Vice: James Ellory interviewed. At NPR: Nick Hornby on Fresh Air. At Thought Catalog: Putting a ton of thought into the Tao Lin/Jonathan Franzen Stranger/Time cover At Dangerous Minds: A letter from the Philip K. Dick auction. At Huffington Post: 9 bad jobs in literature. At The […]

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Simultaneous Kettles Boiling, Too Hot to Touch: Various Writers at Age 26

Posted by Nick Curley Today I turn twenty-six years old. It’s only been my birthday for ten hours, but so far this has proven the best year of my life. In the hopes of finding inspiration, and satisfaction for gnawing trivia, I looked up various names upon my bookshelf, to see what they were up to at/by the age of twenty-six. Let’s keep it chronological, in blocks of text: us mid-twenties types can think in lists and narratives, all at […]

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