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“140 characters too short for heartbreak but ideal for heartburn” – @Joycecaroloates
It’s happening: Joyce Carol Oates, writer and recent recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement, has joined twitter this month. Oates’s twitter personality is wise and poetic.
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Dylan Landis, a longtime newspaper and magazine journalist, is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This,
Truman Capote’s social celebrity is a defining feature of his legacy—it added another element to his literary prowess and his visible lifestyle was definitely a point of contention for people.
Many people had things to say about his lifestyle, and he had his opinions to offer in return.
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A memoir of life as a disappointed fan becomes a meditation on “isolation and the things we do to overcome our loneliness… emptiness, and not knowing how to fill it.”
In Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.
In New York this week Richard Price is interviewed by Philip Gourevitch, David Byrne presents Creation in Reverse, Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter chat over brunch, Tao Lin (who will also be reading at The Rumpus’s first anniversary party) and CAConrad read at The Animal Farm Reading Series, Dave Eggers at the Strand, Women of Antifolk, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation present a re-staging of the first lecture ever dedicated to the art of magic.
In The London Guardian nine successful literary authors tackle the subject of writing and money. This is much more insightful and interesting than it sounds. AL Kennedy starts, “The joy of writing for a living is that you get to do it all the time.
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