Intimate recap of an accidental career
Jon Krakauer, whose latest book is just out, calls 90% of his early magazine work “total crap,” but good training in concision. (Via.)
Jon Krakauer, whose latest book is just out, calls 90% of his early magazine work “total crap,” but good training in concision. (Via.)
James Wood chooses my friend Amitava Kumar’s Postmortem as a 3-Minute Fiction finalist at NPR.
For the last month of his life, Marcel Proust subsisted entirely on beer, according to his housekeeper. (Via.)
Over the years I’ve developed a bad habit of going over sentences again and again in my fiction because they don’t quite sound right. By that I mean that the rhythm is off or the vowel sounds clash or an adjective is too bland or, worse, too “creative” in some overcomplicated or cutesy way that distracts from the flow of . . .
FCC head supports Net Neutrality, and contemplates rules to ensure it. Opposition lessens, for now.