December 2010
95 posts
2010 in Film: Girls With Grit →
Dec 31st
Modern Library Revue: #96 Sophie’s Choice →
Dec 30th
The Literary Long Sentence →
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
Take This Waltz: Leonard Cohen’s Tour Comes to an... →
Dec 29th
On Not Getting Lost in Translation →
Dec 29th
A Year In Reading: Avi Steinberg →
Dec 22nd
Merry Christmas! →
I’m now taking a break for a short while, at least until after the big day, in order to fully appreciate what will hopefully be a disgustingly lazy Christmas. I hope you all have the opportunity to…
Dec 21st
Big Money Books →
Dec 21st
A Year in Reading: Emily Colette Wilkinson →
Dec 18th
Success →
On this day in 1903, following an unsuccessful attempt three days previous, the Wright brothers once again took their newly-built Wright Flyer to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and proceeded to…
Dec 18th
A Year in Reading: Marisa Silver →
Dec 17th
A Year in Reading: Richard Nash →
Dec 17th
Fake! →
In 1986, having just completed some layouts for a Jonny Quest strip, professional comic book artist Steve Rude decided to fax his work to a personal hero - celebrated cartoonist Alex Toth - in…
Dec 16th
The lid is on in Packingtown →
Over the course of seven weeks in 1904, journalist Upton Sinclair entered Chicago’s meatpacking industry and worked undercover as a factory operative. The next year his resultant exposé, The…
Dec 15th
Dec 15th
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Feral Carols on Wednesday at 11AM EST →
Visit Feral Carols all day beginning at 11EST to get a live improv group of carolers to sing your own song…badass…
Dec 14th
Dec 14th
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Have you heard about the Toad? →
Whilst holidaying with his wife in May of 1907, Kenneth Grahame wrote the first of fifteen letters to his son and ended it with mention of Toad, a fantastical character recently introduced to…
Dec 14th
Dec 10th
Crunching the Reading Numbers →
Dec 10th
Penguin Book Cover Postcards →
Dec 10th
Bad Education: The Confessions of Ed Dante →
Dec 10th
A Year in Reading: Sam Lipsyte →
Dec 10th
More Amazon Sales Ranking Crack →
Dec 10th
Louise Erdrich: The Paris Review Interview →
Dec 10th
A Year in Reading: Julie Orringer →
Dec 10th
Navigating Past Nihilism →
Dec 10th
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On Relocation...
Brian: jesus christ liz how many reusable shopping bags does one person need?
you left an entire drawer ful
Brian: and a book with a handwritten cover called "The Hunters' New Year"
Dec 9th
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On The Significance of gHumor...
JENNIFER: i will marry one of the people in your status messages, thats on my bucket list
Dec 9th
A Year in Reading: Phillip Lopate →
Dec 9th
The first mail to be carried over the Atlantic →
Alcock & Brown shortly after takeoff | Image: Wikimedia On June 14th of 1919 at St. John’s, Newfoundland, Captain John Alcock and his navigator Lt. Arthur Brown made history as they…
Dec 9th
Big-timers →
Dec 9th
Los Angeles Literary Highlights →
Dec 9th
A Year in Reading: Aimee Bender →
Dec 9th
Dec 9th
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A Year in Reading: Tom Rachman →
Dec 8th
A Year in Reading: Paul Murray →
Dec 8th
Your draughtsmanship is beyond reproach →
As creator of his widely-adored comic strip, Little Orphan Annie, the late-Harold Gray no doubt received many a fan letter during his lifetime. The following example of such a missive was sent in…
Dec 8th
Amazon Shows Off ‘Kindle for the Web’ →
Dec 8th
A Year in Reading: Anthony Doerr →
Dec 7th
A Year in Reading: Padgett Powell →
Dec 7th
The Peculiar Science of Hating The Beatles →
Dec 7th
Something Brewing on Twitter →
Dec 7th
Tuesday New Release Day →
Dec 7th
A Year in Reading: Hamilton Leithauser →
Dec 7th
Love that color on you, by the way →
Courtesy of a reader named Farrah, today we have a letter - purportedly written by Hugh Laurie - that was sent to a number of critics earlier this year along with advance copies of the first two…
Dec 7th
A Year in Reading: Emma Donoghue →
Dec 7th
Literature By The Numbers →
Dec 7th
Best New Blogs →
Dec 7th