From mimsy and slithy to Brangelina: The portmanteau
Britain’s smoking ban inspires a new portmanteau word: Smirting. The Times traces the history of the form. (Via.)
Britain’s smoking ban inspires a new portmanteau word: Smirting. The Times traces the history of the form. (Via.)
Dmitri Navokov will consider publishing a fascsimile of the index cards that constitute his father’s last novel draft.
The plane back from Georgia was delayed, and all the pulled pork, okra, and cake I ate this weekend must have gone to my brain. I can’t concentrate to answer email, much less catch up on reading. For now, try Wilfred, an Australian TV show being shown in daily installments at IFC.com. Ingredients: one man, one woman, and a bong-smoking . . .
Remember that essay I was writing last year about my ex-? I keep forgetting to say that it will be anthologized next year in a collection of doomed-relationship essays edited by my friend Michael Taeckens. Last I checked, the contributors included Kate Christensen, Junot Díaz, Gary Shteyngart, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Dana Rasso, Tayari Jones, Amanda Stern, Pasha Malla, Wendy McClure, T. . . .
PEN World Voices is the literary festival I most look forward to, so I’m sad to miss it. Fortunately, Metaxucafé & David Haglund are there.