June 2011
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Elizabeth Gumport: Against Reviews →
ladyjournos:
Forced to smuggle thoughts of value into the small spaces between plot summary and biographical detail, reviewers accomplish next to nothing.
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Girl Crush Zine: Joan Didion's Packing List →
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To Pack and Wear:
2 skirts 2 jerseys or leotards 1 pullover sweater 2 pair shoes stockings bra nightgown, robe slippers cigarettes bourbon bag with: shampoo, toothbrush and paste, Basis soap, razor, deodorant, aspirin, prescriptions, Tampax, face cream, powder, baby oil
To Carry:
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Ten Social Networks For Readers →
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“I think it’s curiosity that drives me to read. I don’t think...”
– Margaret Atwood, What I Read, The Atlantic.
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J.K. Rowling to sell e-books directly to consumers... →
Wow.
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Unbound: the "Kickstarter" for books? →
Not that you can’t use Kickstarter for your own book project…
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HAPPINESS.
Books by Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Townsend Warner and May Sinclair are available as Kindle e-books. I BUY THEM ALL!
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“Put bluntly, if you call yourself a reading man, but don’t read books by women,...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates (via fatmanatee)
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Franzen Strikes Again
lisasimpsonbookclub:
Audience member: Who are your biggest influences?
Michael Chabon: I’d have to say my good friend Jonathan Franzen. I thought his novel The Corrections needed none.
Jonathan Franzen: Well in turn, I’d have to say my biggest influence is…Albert Camus.
Chabon: You were supposed to say me! I blurbed you!
Franzen: Yeah, and it looks real sweet on my dust jacket. How do...
