Etgar Keret writes about going on a book tour just weeks after the passing of his father at Tablet. Elif Batuman visits Orhan Pamuk’s museum in Turkey. Our own Jon Reiss checks out eight coworking spaces in Brooklyn. HiLobrow has been serializing Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail. They’re up to #11. “Klein speaks with a quiet yet assured voice, often staring at the ground as she carefully expresses genuine solace with anyone who has felt alienated in his or her life.” […]
Morning Bites: Paris Review # 200, Book Stalker Turns One, Taking Franzen to Task, MIT Gags, and More
The Paris Review celebrates issue #200. “Do we even have to say that physical beauty is beside the point when discussing the work of a major author? Was Tolstoy pretty? Is Franzen? Wharton’s appearance has no relevance to her work. Franzen perpetuates the typically patriarchal standard of ranking a woman’s beauty before discussing her merits, whether she is an intellectual, artist, politician, activist, or musician.” – Victoria Patterson at the Los Angeles Review of Books takes Jonathan Franzen to task […]
Morning Bites: Billy Bragg’s birthday, George RR Martin, Jungle Book jams, Dalton Trumbo’s credit, and more
Today is Billy Bragg’s birthday. Please feel free to spend the entire day listening to Talking with the Taxman about Poetry. How the Los Angeles Review of Books plans to bring LA to the top of the literary cities list. What would Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli listen to? Getting hooked on George RR Martin. Dalton Trumbo gets the credit he deserved. Want to write a pop culture book that will sell at Urban Outfitters? The Awl breaks down how you can do it. Keith […]