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Autochromes
They look colorized but these images from the Albert Kahn collection are autochromes — the earliest true color photos — and besides being nifty and nostalgic, they seem to live up to Kahn’s goal to create a photographic record of…
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It’s a Fire
Eugene Marten and his new novel Firework are discussed in this interview with the author. It’s hard to say what is more interesting – the content of Marten’s book or the description of his writer’s life. The latter could be…
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Great Title
Author Rosecrans Baldwin has published a diary of the days leading up to his first book release over at The Millions: “Writing Is My Peppermint-Flavored Heroin.”
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Sure You Can Write, But How’s Your Stage Presence?
In this era of literary events and self promotion author Ben Myers asks, “do readers expect their writers to be performers too?” (via The Book Bench)
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Snark, Strangeness and Charm
Mahendra Singh is an illustrator from Montreal “busily fitting Lewis Carroll into a protosurrealist straitjacket with matching dada cufflinks” on The Hunting of the Snark. In March he won the first-ever Raymond Roussel illustration contest. This is the first of…
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Serious Men
Manu Joseph’s satirizes contemporary India, “pounding away at the caste system like a pitcher repeatedly throwing his best fastball.”
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Morning Coffee
America: home of jet busses. My love of old books may not be as innocent as I’d assumed. Everyone loves a good 19th century panorama. Giant frozen lake art huzzah! This has been a very good week for South American…
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The Rumpus Interview with Allison Hoover Bartlett
Have you ever loved a book enough to steal it? I have. A man named John Gilkey has. He’s stolen many. He has bibliokleptomania. He’s a man who can’t stop himself from stealing books.
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Dostoevsky Takes the Train
“The Dostoevskaya station — which opened this summer in memory of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky — met a fair share of opposition when psychologists expressed concern that dark murals of the violent scenes from Dostoevsky’s books could put riders in…
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“I’m not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear.”
The Guardian has scored a rare interview with Don DeLillo, in which he talks about “living the American dream, growing old and how an art installation inspired his latest novel, Point Omega.”
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10/40/70 #19: Notes on a Scandal
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Notes on a Scandal, directed by Richard Eyre and based…