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Kafka’s Unfinished Manuscripts: From Vienna to Tel Aviv and Potentially Home Again
Check out this utterly fantastic story on Kafka’s unfinished manuscripts over at The Independent. Usually unfinished manuscripts lead to something as blase as Nabokov’s The Original of Laura, but the…
Not to Be Missed
If you haven’t read it already we highly recommend Kathleen Alcott’s touching essay about writing and her father: “From Shrinking Solid to Expanding Gas: The Writing Life.”
More Paris Review
Josh Corey tells the story of his de-acceptance from The Paris Review over at WWAATD. To catch up on this story click here.
At Least The Republicans are Being Honest
…about being dishonest. This article should have been titled “Republicans Freely Admit They Have No Ideas,” since it basically is an on-the-record admission by GOP strategists that their mid-term strategy,…
Phone Calls With Harvey
“I started reading Harvey Pekar’s comic book series American Splendor in high school, when I was anxious about my future and frustrated by my present. Little did I know then,…
Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
We had a fantastic Rumpus at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco last week. Couldn’t make it (don’t live in the Bay Area)? Don’t worry, Timothy Faust took some amazing…
“I Am So Freaked Out By LA”
“There is warped violence in this Los Angeles-set book that, from very early on, shocked me.” Todd Zuniga reviews Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel, Imperial Bedrooms.
What Books Haven’t You Read?
“Full disclosure: I’ve certainly referred, in newspaper copy, to books with which I have, shall we say, a fairly distant relationship. Now I’m going deeper into the confessional.” Robert McCrum…