Fragments
September 20, 2005 | Comments Off
- The bigger, bolder, and more beautiful newspapers of the last century.
- Is there any punctuation mark sexier than the correctly-used semicolon? No, there is not.
- New illustrations for Roald Dahl’s stories.
- The reaction to Orhan Pamuk’s pending prosecution: a word-of-mouth report from Turkey.
- The latest Mary Gaitskill (“Flannery O’Connor with a flesh wound”) offering gets a rave in Bookforum.
- The Foer opera: an opera to escape opera. (Hold me. I’m scared.)
- Ian McEwan distributes classic novels in the park.
- Atlantic interview with Zadie Smith. Also, an old Zadie Smith article on E.M. Forster’s fiction and the complexities of the human heart. (Thanks, John.)
- Mailer, Ferlinghetti to win lifetime achievement awards.
- Asshole: a modern history textbook set to music. (Thanks, Paul.)
- Somewhat related: the Bush dynasty, and its imaginary friend, Chang. (Thanks, Max.)
- What not to do when you sit down to start your writing project. Most surprising advice: “Do not Google all your exes.” (Thanks, Jeffrey.)
Category: Publishing & Writing