The Joker by Andrew Hudgins
Andrew Hudgins reads two excerpts from his memoir, The Joker, published in June by Simon & Schuster.
Catch It and Paint It Green
I was slow to delight in disorder, in which words didn’t mean what I’d...
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A Crucial Collaboration: Reader-Writer-Character-Book
Character calls forth writer. Writer calls forth reader. It seems straightforward—but is it? Novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki explores the relationships embedded in every novel and work of fiction.
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Smile at Strangers by Susan Schorn
Susan Schorn reads from her debut memoir, Smile at Strangers: And Other Lessons in the Art of Living Fearlessly, published in May by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
I'm pondering...
Amazon in New York City, Bukowski Drawings Discovered, and More
Amazon is reportedly looking to rent half-a-million square feet of office space in New York City; nineteen Charles Bukowski drawings were rediscovered at a book fair; Jillian Goodman considers Michelle Orange’s This is Running for Your Life; and other news.
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A Long Day at the End of the World by Brent Hendricks
Brent Hendricks reads from his memoir, A Long Day at the End of the World: A Story of Desecration and Revelation in the Deep South, published in March by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Because a picture is a sort of dream, the big...
I Will Not Leave You Comfortless by Jeremy Jackson
Jeremy Jackson reads from his memoir, I Will Not Leave You Comfortless, published in October by Milkweed Editions.A StormOn the last Wednesday of April, 1983, my grandmother went to a funeral. She drove from the farm to...
Goodbye to Algonquin's Oak Room, E. B. White Answers the ASPCA, and More
Melville House wonders when publishers will speak out about Amazon; New York City's Algonquin Hotel announced that when it reopens this spring after a renovation, the famed Oak Room will be gone; E. B. White answers a charge levied by the ASPCA; and more
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Remembering Wislawa Szymborska and Dorothea Tanning, Paul Auster's War of Words, and More
Nobel prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, as well as Surrealist artist and poet Dorothea Tanning, passed away yesterday in their respective countries; novelist Paul Auster has engaged in a war of words with Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey; Open Letters Monthly examines the hidden life of Virginia Woolf's institutionalized half-sister, Laura Makepeace Stephen; and other news.
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The Light at Dusk: A Profile of Joan Didion
Having chronicled her husband’s sudden death in The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion returns to the subject of loss in a new memoir, Blue Nights, about the subsequent passing of her daughter.
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Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin
With so many good books being published every month, some literary titles worth exploring can get lost in the stacks. Page One offers the first lines of a dozen recently released books, including Dan Chiasson's Where's the Moon, There's the Moon and Monika Fagerholm's The American Girl, as the starting point for a closer look at these new and noteworthy titles.
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