August 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
39 posts
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“Let Φ (a physical possibility structure) be a set...
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Mailer, Updike, Roth-the Great Male Narcissists*
*Unless, of course, you consider constructing long encomiums to a woman’s “sacred several-lipped gateway” or saying things like “It is true, the sight of her plump lips obediently distended around my swollen member, her eyelids lowered demurely, afflicts me with a religious peace” to be the same as loving her.
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In This Corner, Norman Mailer →
Dick Cavett’s take on the Gore Vidal v. Norman Mailer feud which began on his show.
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I Like Your Books
In the betting line the other day man behind me asked, “are you Henry Chinaski?” “uh huh,” I answered. “I like your books,” he went on. “thanks,” I answered. “who do you like in this race?” he asked. “uh uh,” I answered. “I like the 4 horse,” he told me. I made my bet and went back to my seat…. the next race...
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“At George Plimpton’s memorial service,” he said, “in Saint John the Divine, I...”
– Norman Mailer, The Art of Fiction
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“And Franzen, hunched over his keyboard in a scavenged swivel chair held together...”
– Jonathan Franzen’s Big Book
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Writer, Interrupted →
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Jorge Luis Borges, The Art of Fiction No. 39 →
One of the best Paris Review interviews I’ve ever read
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The Fonzie of Literature →
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Donald Barthelme: America's Weirdest Literary... →
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“I simply feel lost in a mystical, fantasy land, where books sore as high as...”
– Yelp review of Iliad Book Shop
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Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man →
Documentary about George Whitman, Shakespeare and Company founder.
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All Online Obituaries of DFW →
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“I had just started the “humanities” requirement for my degree...”
– Amazon review of Women In Love
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GIGANTIC: How about a literary meat? Like, what kind of meat would write a book?
GARY: Aged.
GIGANTIC: Aged.
GARY: Old meat. The Saul Bellow of meats. I don't know. Sometimes I look at some of these writers, pictures of older writers, I just see all the meat that's gone into them. Mordecai Richler, case in point. The man looked like a meat at the end of his life. I mean, you know, just put him on a grill and he's served. So much of literature is centered around meat. Reading while eating brisket is one of the most voluptuous things you can do with your time.
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“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first...”
– Hemingway
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Tao Lin's Amazon Profile →
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“What I’m saying, Doctor, is that I don’t seem to stick my dick up...”
– Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint
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“I read “kafka on the shore” in Japanese, confused by its complexity...”
– Haruki Murakami discussion forum
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"As close as you can get to the stars" →
The best Updike interview I’ve found.
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“I have often thought Ian McEwan a writer as unlike me as it is possible to be....”
– Zadie Smith on Ian McEwan
“This is probably the worst book I’ve ever read. It’s completely...”
– Amazon review of “A Farewell to Arms”
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“this is one of the worst books i have ever read. if this is one of ernest...”
– Amazon review of The Old Man and the Sea
Michiko Kakutani's Review of Infinite Jest →
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While I was reading the book, I felt like Eggers... →
Amazon book review of Eggers’ You Shall Know Our Velocity
“Unforgiving, Kittredge marries Harry, who once saved her from suicide....”
– via NYT review of Harlot’s Ghost.
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Mikhail Bulgakov Museum →
Article about artist's retreat Yaddo from Sept... →
Talks about Elizabeth Ames, the program director to whom Philip Roth dedicated “The Breast”.
April 2011
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One writer kept very busy at work in the... →
Robert Benchley’s Advice to Writers
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Jennifer Weiner's Bibliography
Fly Away Home
Best Friends Forever
Certain Girls
The Guy Not Taken
Goodnight Nobody
Little Earthquakes
In Her Shoes
Good In Bed
“I spoke once at a Jewish literary society on the subject of time in Kafka, an...”
– Zadie Smith
“Aiding young Portnoy in these furtive sessions of self-love are a variety of...”
– I can’t believe I haven’t read Portnoy’s Complaint yet.
New Girl Crush →
Francoise Sagan.
