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From Stephen Elliott
Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson academically quarrel in a series of letters, written to assuage the pain of illness that was afflicting them both.
They’ve got a shared “literary curiosity,” but the specifics of their understanding of Western literature reveal that they mostly just disagreed.
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I spent the weekend in New York at Book Expo America and throwing a big fat party with McSweeney’s and SMITHMAG. The party was amazing, over 500 people, inspired performances.
But I want to say something about Book Expo.
Literature is not dying.
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It occurred to me this morning, because the hottest party in Austin is the Fader/Levi’s party (that’s not really true, it depends on your measurements, it’s complicated), but it reminded me that the people making money in 1849 weren’t digging for gold, they were making pants.
...moreThe Rumpus is really ramping up for our mid-January launch. We’re going to have a music blog by Rick Moody, a Senioritis blog by Jerry Stahl, and a dominatrix crafting blog by Bitchy Jones. We’ll also have a yet to be announced blog by Steve Almond, a comedy blog by Will Durst, a Chicago Cop blog, and an A-18 blog by Ross Tuttle, as well as others.
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