Angelica Garnett and the Cost of the Art
I read awhile back about Angelica Garnett’s death at MobyLives, and I haven’t been able to get her out of my mind since. She was Vanessa Bell’s daughter, Virginia Woolf’s…
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Saint Joan, J.Diddy, You Know What We Call Her
I will first shamelessly self-promote and link you to a piece I did for the Awl this week on Joan Didion’s early reviews. I’m going to let that substitute for…
Are You My Mother?
NPR shares a six-page excerpt from Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel’s latest graphic memoir. Here’s a conversation between Bechdel and the Paris Review. “There’s so much she hasn’t told…
Strayed Ethics
Cheryl Strayed was this week’s guest ethicist for The New York Times Magazine. She responded to three queries–relating to sex, money, and infidelity–with that Cheryl/Sugar blend of wisdom and wit.
Rombes Rocks Berfrois
Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes served as today’s guest editor for London-based online magazine Berfrois. Rombes curated an array of excellent pieces, including Rumpus editor Isaac Fitzgerald’s “In Love in San Francisco,”…
“I Am Greatly Troubled By What You Say”
In a Letter of Note from earlier this week, Mark Twain replies to a librarian’s note concerning the Brooklyn Public Library ban on Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in his…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dan Weiss is off today, but we’re channeling him. Smoke. Stone. Super Nintendo. Skin under a band-aid… 50 Shades of Grey. Animals with fraudulent diplomas. Yesterday, a giant solar-powered airplane…
The Hemingway Papers
The Toronto Star‘s well-designed archive of Ernest Hemingway’s newspaper articles for the Canadian paper provides access to evidence of the young author honing his spartan style and exploring his favorite…
“I Was There”
William Dereseiwicz’s luminous response to Kurt Vonnegut’s oeuvre recently printed by the Library of America, is a critique as much as it is hero-worship. Dereseiwicz confronts Vonnegut’s novels from his earliest to…
Risky Moves
Granta interviews Tania James whose collection Aerogrammes and Other Stories is out this month. James discusses writing from a child’s perspective, scriptology, and the short form. “Certainly novels can and…
What About the Sky?
According to scholars, Homer never mentioned the color blue in any of his works; neither did the Bible, nor an abundance of ancient texts. Also, linguists have found a near-universal…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Hey look, it’s my birthday! Maybe you feel like donating to my band’s new kickstarter campaign? I’m sorry, I won’t mention it again. Deserted shopping malls are the ancient ruins…