10 things you didn’t know about The Great Gatsby in the latest LiTBLURB video. (All facts are 100% true-ish.)
Author George Saunders reads from and discusses his new story collection Tenth of December. Live at Politics & Prose is a co-production of Slate and Politics & Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C.
It’s apparently a day of podcasts for me. I’m posting a lot of them BUT ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE SO GOOD.
Judy Blume makes me cry on this week’s LiTBLURB. And not in a good way.
Just finished the new LiTBLURB video. I’ll post it here when it’s actually the morning and not just the technically-past-midnight kind of morning.
Why does my face look like that? Well, a certain author hurts my feelings, and here’s a hint: her name rhymes with Pootie Gloom.
Amazon and the the Seis Grande get slapped with an interesting lawsuit. Follow the link to peep it for yourself.
Happy Valentine’s Day, internets! Share some literary love with LiTBLURB’s new video. I blurb EVERY* book from 2012.
*possible exaggeration
That thing where you move to a new city and find a note in a bookstore from a friend you’ve never met.
(Nerdfighters have good taste in bookstores.)
Happy to see Louise Erdrich’s The Round House in the top ten, with even more of our books in the genre lists.
More lit news from PubWkly. Looks like I have more books to buy…(What’s that? The sound of my wallet girding its loins.)
Jon Stewart on books.
Jon may have accidentally stolen this joke from children’s author/illustrator Lane Smith. Exhibit A: http://us.macmillan.com/itsabook/LaneSmith
(via nouvellabooks)
My current checklist for a story about pomegranates.
My pal Lizzie G gave this Ted talk a while ago. I watch it whenever I’m blocked. It always does the trick.
Main takeaway: If you stand in a field, sooner or later, a poem will thunder toward you in a funnel of magic.
Main main takeaway: Give yourself a break. Do the work and do the work and everything else will follow.
My dashboard is full of so many literary tumblies that, usually, when I see a grammar mistake in a post, it’s actually not a mistake, I’m just reading too fast.
It’s nice to be able to count on certain tumblr-ers to punctuate and grammartize (a word? let’s pretend it’s a word) correctly.
(“Correct,” I know, is a loose concept in the tumblrverse. I mean, did you see how I parenthetical-ed up there?)
Action creates
a taste
for itself.
Meaning: once
you’ve swept
the shelves
of spoons
and plates
you kept
for guests,
it gets harder
not to also
simplify the larder,
not to dismiss
rooms, not to
divest yourself
of all the chairs
but one, not
to test what
singleness can bear,
once you’ve begun.
by Kay Ryan
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(via granta)
(via granta)
