The New York Comics Symposium: N.C. Christopher Couch
The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights from 7…
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Conversational Pointers from 150 Years Ago
Though these tips for being a good conversationalist are reprinted on The Art of Manliness, they apply to any speaker regardless of gender. What’s truly surprising about them is that…
The Greatest American Novel
The Millions “asked nine English scholars to choose one novel as the greatest our country has ever produced.” The results span a wide range subjects, authors, and time periods. Most you’ve…
Next Letter for Kids: Sally Nemeth
The next Letter for Kids, going out Monday, July 15, is from the multitalented Sally Nemeth! Her plays, including Holy Days and Mill Fire, have been widely produced, and she has written for…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So you’re saying the cure for cancer is Alzheimer’s? 1960s medical landscapes (are pretty cool). Dolphin and manatee death mysteries are the saddest mysteries. Here are some erotic soviet-era alphabet…
Novelist David Mitchell on His Son’s Autism
In an essay for The Guardian, David Mitchell (author of the novels Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green, among others) provides a moving and honest account of the experience of raising a son…
Next Letter in the Mail: Laura Bogart
Gird your loins: the next Letter in the Mail, going out Monday, July 15, is from Laura Bogart! If you’d like to receive her letter, subscribe by noon PT tomorrow. Laura is the…
Matt Bell and Callie Collins in Austin
Austin folks, if you need to take a breather from politics, come to Bookpeople this Saturday for a Matt Bell reading! Bell, whose novel In the House upon the Dirt between…
The Muse or the Devil
In a daily feature about “books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly,” NPR’s Two-Way blog linked to our interview with Oliver Sacks about his latest investigation of extraordinary neurology, Hallucinations. Thanks,…
Pay No Attention to the Sexism Behind the Curtain
At a relatively slim 3700 words, Moira Weigel’s and Mal Ahern’s essay “Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child,” sparked by less-than-enlightened political text Preliminary Materials for a Theory of…
A Man, His Mother, and the Ballet
Jesse Eisenberg, known for playing Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, has published a Shouts & Murmurs column at The New Yorker titled “My Mother Explains the Ballet to Me.”…
“Orange Is The New Black”
If you’ve been keeping tabs on Netflix’s new brand of television, you’ve probably been anticipating the premiere of Orange is the New Black. What you may not know is that the…