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LaToya Jordan
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How Much is Your Body Worth?
“I weigh just a little under two hundred pounds, have brown hair, blue eyes, and a full set of teeth. As far as I know, my thyroid gland pumps the right hormones into the twelve pints of blood that circulate…
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XXX Jane Austen
First came Pride and Prejudice, then came the zombies, and now comes the sex. Erotica author Mitzi Szereto has written Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, that features “the entire cast of characters from Austen’s classic is here, caught with their…
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How to Drink Like Hemingway
“The only time Hemingway cried over alcohol: When Congress made it illegal during Prohibition. But he pulled himself together, as a man does always, and traveled to Paris, as a man does seldom. There Papa committed to a life of…
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Notable New York, This Week 6/06-6/12
This week in New York begins the best season in New York, festivals, street fairs, and sunshine. Shakespeare in the Park begins with “Measure for Measure,” Literary Trivia Night at KGB Bar, Singing writers at WORD, a summer-camp-themed book party…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
“Mr. Eco, I noticed that I’ve never seen a new novel blurbed by you. Is that because you’ve never been asked? Allow me to be the first! Please find attached my new breathtaking and magisterial novel Children of Parents. Blurb…
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Keep Your “Malcolm Gladwell” in Your Pants
“The book’s hero, Dave, is a resident of the lusty alternate universe known as the House of Holes, a kind of sex tourism Hogwarts. At one point, Dave invites a woman to watch a dirty movie in the campus’s 12-projection…
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Brush Up on Your Literary Feuds
Whitehead v. Ford Egan v. Weiner Rushdie v. Updike Writers duel with their words, though sometimes there’s spit involved. Flavorwire has a list of 10 notorious literary spats.
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‘To a Restless Little Brother’
“You may not understand this now, but she isn’t coming back. Not tonight. Not tomorrow. Day after that. And no, she hasn’t left anything behind — a sticky note on the refrigerator door or a quick message for the answering…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/30-6/05
This week in New York writer Edna O’Brien and actor Gabriel Byrne at McNally Jackson Books, book party for Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars, Swoosie Kurtz reads Edith Wharton, George Clinton and PFunk, stargazing at the World Science Festival,…
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Sunday Afternoon Links
You’ve probably heard about PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, which will give 24 young people the opportunity to delay college (although some of the fellows have already graduated from college; they’re that smart) and instead take…
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What Disasters Uncover
“After all, apocalypses like the Haitian earthquake are not only catastrophes; they are also opportunities: chances for us to see ourselves, to take responsibility for what we see, to change. One day somewhere in the world something terrible will happen,…
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Notable New York, This Week 5/23-5/29
This week in New York the Indie Booksellers Choice Awards at Housing Works; Book Expo America runs all week; Emma Donohue, Room, at powerHouse; book launch parties for Vanessa Hidary, Lynne Tillman, and Vanessa Veselka; two storytelling events: Sideshow Goshko…