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Today, The New Yorker Page Turner blog highlighted Abigail Welhouse’s Rumpus interview with Luis Negrón!
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Radioactive Mongolian Dinosaurs and the People Who Love Them
Here are some subjects with which this (extremely long) New Yorker article concerns itself:
...moreHistory of Tattoos
The fact that tattoos existed in a time before “punk” was a word to describe a movement is a hard notion to grasp.
The New Yorker has compiled a series of photographs of women in the early to mid 20th century baring their tattoos.
...moreMary Todd Lincoln: The Controversial First Lady
Mary Todd Lincoln was no Jackie Kennedy. Although Mary Lincoln is often portrayed as being consumed by aristocratic airs, she hardly fit in with the upper-class. She spent hefty sums of money on custom tailored dresses to “look the part;” but her fashion choices were often scoffed at, and she is far from being remembered as an iconic fashion figure.
...more“Who the hell is interested, anyway?”
In 1957, Truman Capote had done it again.
Written for The New Yorker, “The Duke in His Domain” dissolved the absolute mystery surrounding Marlon Brando. And of course, it was Capote, and The New Yorker, so the writing was rich as chocolate cake, and the source unquestionable.
...moreImprove your prose with Math
Alright fiction writers, put down your pens for a moment and let’s talk math.
If you recoil when hearing the “M-word” or brace your index fingers into a cross at the sight of algebra or calculus books—you’re not alone. But according to Alex Nazaryan’s article, “Why Writers Should Learn Math,” writers could improve their prose by embracing math instead of cowering from it.
...moreSimple Madness or Something Else?
Today is the day for ghost stories.
At The New Yorker, Brad Leithauser analyzes Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw,” focusing on the distinction still being puzzled out by readers and scholars alike: were the ghosts real, or was the unnamed governess real crazy?
...moreGetting the Story Straight
Ever wonder how the New Yorker gets their facts right? Here’s a hint: it’s not the editor.
In an excerpt from The Art of Making Magazines: On Being an Editor and Other Views from the Industry, chapter five, “Fact-Checking at The New Yorker,” explores the evolution of The New Yorker fact-checking department and their efforts to get the story right.
...moreA Responsibility to the Classics
We’ve all got those books we’ve been meaning to read. Whether we heard about them yesterday, or saw them in a bookstore window a couple of months ago, or we can’t quite remember when but someone told us about something they thought we might like, a while ago, we think.
...moreDavid Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Dorothea Lasky v. Elizabeth Bishop
All of a sudden my inbox is filling up with links from friends to two essays related to poetry that have almost everything and nothing in common at once, and whose implications say a lot about how the art of poetry gets re- or de- artified.
...moreWhen We Allow the Imagination to Roam Free
At The New Yorker, Saturday Rumpus editor Michelle Dean explores what Mitt Romney might learn from Wallace Stevens.
“This embedded idea, that there was something liberating in the elimination of risk, led Stevens to write approvingly in that company journal of social insurance in Italy, Germany, and England.
...moreTrouble In Nipple Paradise
The New Yorker recently posted a cartoon which features a naked, and post-coital, Adam and Eve to their Facebook page. What resulted was a kerfuffle between the magazine and social media site over their nudity regulation policies. Specifically, Facebook took issue with Eve’s cartoon nipples, leading to the magazine’s Facebook page being temporarily shut down.
...moreMikael Kennedy Rocks The New Yorker
Photographs from Mikael Kennedy‘s “Passport to Trespass” series illustrate T.C. Boyle’s fiction in the latest issue of the New Yorker.
Don’t miss our one question interview with Kennedy.
Catch a sneak peek of his New Yorker art:
...moreHow Critics Affect Artists
An artist’s work can take years to complete, while a critic’s take on said art can be formulated in a matter of hours. This distinction is pointed out early on in Richard Brody’s discussion of criticism at The New Yorker.
Brody does not argue that critics should be considered inferior to artists, rather that they should be wary of how their words affect the headspace of an artist.
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The Rumpus Interview with Hart Seely
Tom Barbash talks with author and reporter Hart Seely about winning ballgames from your couch, Donald Rumsfeld, faking sanity, and the fate of quality journalism in the online era of click chasing.
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The Lehrer Affair
If Jonah Lehrer ever writes a book about irrationality, it would be hard to imagine a better case study than his own. Like the best of his stories, it’s surprising, instructive, and deeply ironic.
...moreWhat Really Happened? We Still Don’t Know
At The New Yorker, novelist and Pulitzer Prize jury member Michael Cunningham has written a two-part essay about why there was no Prize awarded for fiction this year for the first time since 1977.
The essay, while coming from a source one step removed from the final decision – that of the committee – still provides an interesting look into the painstaking process of whittling down three hundred books into three.
...moreTrain Spottings
The strange confluence of affection for both literature and modes of public transportation is highlighted by The New Yorker today, in their post about the website Underground New York Public Library.
The website catalogues two types of subjects: people who read on trains, and the visibly disgruntled strangers who sit next to them, many of whom seem displeased or bemused at the prospect of their picture being taken.
...moreBooks for Bed
Judith Thurman and Peter Canby of The New Yorker fame talk about what they like to read at bedtime, covering ground from the Mayan apocalypse to French dictionaries to Susan Sontag. Both writer-editors, often inundated with new publications looking for a blurb, speak to how they read bedtime books purely for pleasure and what works best late in the evening – texts on paper, on Kindle, and new or old.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Jonah Lehrer
If you listened to Radiolab or read the New Yorker in the last three years, you’ve probably encountered the science journalist Jonah Lehrer.
“Miss Lora”
“It was 1985. You were sixteen years old and you were messed up and alone like a motherfucker. You were also convinced—like totally, utterly convinced—that the world was going to blow itself to pieces. “
This week’s New Yorker fiction piece is “Miss Lora” by Junot Díaz.
...moreSlow-Motion Sins
At The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik follows up on his recent piece about America’s prisons, delving deeper into the moral issues surrounding mass incarceration.
“The moral failings of advanced liberal societies, not least this one, tend to be slow-motion sins.
...moreAdventures in the Narrative
Lawrence Weschler’s collection of essays, Uncanny Valley, compiles some his best essays with the same perspective that he brings to each essay – an impulse to find the subtle convergences in the mundane.
...moreR.I.P. Etta James
Etta James has passed away at the age of 73. The New Yorker reflects on her life and songs. The Awl pays tribute with this playlist.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Susan Orlean
Susan Orlean is best known for being portrayed by Meryl Streep in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation.
The Shortcomings of Words
Jonathan Safran Foer’s New Yorker piece, “Speechless” eloquently identifies the difficulty of finding words amidst an indescribable nightmare while remembering 9/11.
“Dozens of phone calls home were placed from the towers between the moment that the first plane hit and the time that the north tower collapsed.
...moreThe Cartoon Grind
New Yorker cartoon space is highly coveted. Those illustrated laughs that punctuate essays are the ones that made it through the slough of rejection. It’s tough times for the gag cartoonist.
Graphic novelist, James Sturn, walks us through the low expectations, rejection, illustration-block and extracting cartoons from the daily grind.
...moreThe Free World
In David Bezmozgis’s first novel, the Krasnansky’s, a family of Soviet émigrés, wait in Italy for permission to move to North America, the Free World referenced in the book’s title.
...moreLorrie Moore at The New Yorker Festival
Notes I took on what Lorrie Moore said while in conversation with Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker‘s fiction editor, that I felt selfish keeping to myself:
How to become a writer:
-You can’t carve solitude out of loneliness–you need people to get away from them.
Notable New York, This Week 9/28 – 10/3
This week in New York Mayhem launches, Darin Strauss lives Half a Life, Nick Flynn knows The Art of Losing, RISK! is dreamy, The New Yorker Festival screens our MOVIE PICK The Social Network, and in ART, Rob Pruitt returns.
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