Free advance NYTBR
Is everyone else aware that the NYU bookstore gives out free copies of the NYTBR the Tuesday before publication? (Many thanks to Shelley Ettinger for the news.)
Is everyone else aware that the NYU bookstore gives out free copies of the NYTBR the Tuesday before publication? (Many thanks to Shelley Ettinger for the news.)
James Wolcott’s “non story about not meeting Kurt Vonnegut” is equal parts hilarious and depressing and thus a perfect homage.
My buddy Reeves reminds me that Vonnegut would have wanted us all to be cracking jokes. To that end: “Kurt Vonnegut’s in heaven now.”
Nextbook runs Primo Levi’s “The Molecule’s Defiance.” Elsewhere, his biographer tells of Levi’s correspondence with a Mrs. Hety S., and a trip he took to London shortly before his suicide.
Miranda July transforms book promotion into online performance art. Seriously, this is the first thing I’ve smiled at today.