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Are You Living an E.M. Forster Novel?
Ever feel like your life feels eerily drawn out of A Room With a View or Howard’s End? Check off this checklist and find out if you’re in a whirlwind of irony and hypocrisy.
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An Actress Recommends Five Classic Films to Her Child
Surprise is only one of many aspects of human behavior. There are dozens. Maybe even a hundred.
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Maybe-True, Half-Hearted Hemingway in Havana
Papa: Hemingway in Cuba is a recently released film from director Bob Yari following the maybe-true misadventures of the late Hemingway and his years in Cuba, where he lived, drank, and complained after winning the Nobel Prize for fiction. A…
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Remembering Jenny Diski
At n+1, philosopher and writer Justin E.H. Smith remembers Jenny Diski, and shares their correspondence. For Diski, death was always the subject, the knot to admire, wryly, and attempt to untie: …the year before her diagnosis, Jenny invokes the bleak…
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Notable Portland: 5/5–5/11
Thursday 5/5: Slamlandia hosts its inaugural slam. The slam will be two rounds with 3-minute time limit. Hot Lips Hawthorne, 6 p.m., $1 suggested donation. Robert Hill reads from his latest novel, The Remnants. Another Read Through, 7 p.m., free.…
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When Computers Choose Which Novels to Publish
We’re used to Amazon producing recommendations alongside books we buy, but are we prepared for a world where computerized data also picks what gets published? Inkitt, an electronic publishing platform, has announced that they will be utilizing algorithms to pick…
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(Attractive) Debut Novelists Earn Millions
Emma Cline received $2m advance for The Girls, due out in June, which puts her near the top of a growing list of first-time writers with advances in the millions. Last year, City on Fire earned Garth Risk Hallberg a $2m…
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A Curious Land by Susan Muaddi Darraj
Amina Gautier reviews A Curious Land by Susan Muaddi Darraj today in Rumpus Books.
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Don’t Judge a Book…
In the Court of Po Biz, I tend to relate to the jester. Over at Entropy, John Yohe does some quick name-checking and decides, a little cynically, by the blurb, that Robyn Schiff’s new book, A Woman of Property, is…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy 100th birthday (yesterday) Jane Jacobs. What’s going on in the UAE? Not much, just building a mountain to increase rainfall. Today in cultural tourism: school photos in the Arctic. Meanwhile: the Arctic is the next big super confusing frontier.…
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You’re Just a Sinner I Am Told: Prince & the Sexual Revolution
It was all about desire, including women’s desire, Prince’s music. Women were not degraded. They were exalted, body and mind both.
