God wants you to stand up straight, smile on purpose, etc.
“This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.” Chris Lehmann reads health-and-wealth preacher Joel Osteen’s Become a Better You.
“This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.” Chris Lehmann reads health-and-wealth preacher Joel Osteen’s Become a Better You.
Hilary Mantel on Diary of a Bad Year: “Some writers begin by lulling their readers, some by shocking them. J.M. Coetzee begins by starting an argument.”
At Jezebel, Lizzie Skurnick revisits beloved children’s and YA books for “a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wrinkled look.”
2007 was a year of restraint. I got through a Thanksgiving without invoking Donald Barthelme. Still, no writers’ recipe project would be complete without a mention of Don B.’s soup recipes or event catering strategies. And Soft Skull gives me the perfect excuse: a reprint of The Teachings of Don B., complete with Pynchon introduction, is forthcoming next month. Here’s . . .