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Lost journal of W. H. Auden, covering the period after "the eleven happiest weeks of my life," discovered: tmblr.co/Zm2kZyl2rHNL
.@mollycrabapple live-sketched the set of @S___Elliott's Happy Baby yesterday tmblr.co/ZdteaykzP3Eo
Some fun things to keep the bills in your mailbox company: bit.ly/10Pr6fN
Yesterday, on the first anniversary of Carlos Fuentes' death, @fsgbooks released his entire backlist as e-books. (thanks, @paperhaus)
Fighting the urge to go finish my book in the office bathroom.
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"It’s going to land soon, an eggplant-colored anvil of a book." DSM, "dictionary of our pain"? wapo.st/ZYwaJT (via @Shrink_at_Large)
"I like well-defined outlines, I’m old-fashioned.... My stories [will never] find success with the critics."--Calvino nyr.kr/YS4jA6
The highlight (BY FAR) of my professional life, spending 24 hours with @judyblume shelf-life.ew.com/2013/05/13/jud…
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Brooklyn Collection of @brooklynpublic Library creates Hurricane Sandy oral history project. soa.li/MkBsmkL via @NYDNBooks
My latest @NYTmag columnlet: Anaïs Nin v. Marguerite Duras nyti.ms/YLa9TP See also, intro to Duras' L'Amour: bit.ly/10LzDu9
If you love Great Gatsby, you might enjoy @alexanderchee's chat about it, happening now.
Tonight at @greenlightbklyn, 7:30 PM, I talk "What My Mother Gave Me," w/ @emmastraub, @ElissaSchappell, @mmorris14, @ElizBenedict. And wine
Using a program that decodes traits from DNA samples, Dewey-Hagborg creates life-size heads in 3-D. nyti.ms/16iGXWB cc: @bookofsand
RT @Kevin_Kinsella On a serial plagiarist: Nice Poem; I’ll Take It. nyti.ms/182zDus
Haruki Murakami on how he loved Gatsby so much he ended up translating it: bit.ly/ZHyXac #longreads
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What accounts for Emerson's endurance as a writer? @Danny_Heitman considers. go.usa.gov/TGSW
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How to read eyes in the late 19th century: tmblr.co/Zm2kZykWRNVG
"So we passed on through the foul mix of shades and rain with lagging steps." Hollander trans. of THE INFERNO reads like hardboiled classic.
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Very excited to be part of @The_Rumpus' Letters in the Mail. MT @S___Elliott Next month, a letter from @maudnewton: therumpus.net/letters
"Margaret Atwood and I sat on the steps and talked about God." -- @naomialderman tmblr.co/Zm2kZykWIG3h
Love @naomialderman, whose Liars' Gospel retells Jesus' story. We talk @MargaretAtwood, religion, minds... bit.ly/10q4um2 @GrantaMag
Glorious day. Perfect for walking through the West Village to lunch with the excellent @budparr, who rescued my website recently.
MT @openculture Martin Scorsese’s hand-drawn storyboards for Taxi Driver: cultr.me/13YdmO5
(BookCourt North would be a Catskills bookshop, event space, and writers' retreat and you can help make it happen. bit.ly/17IbD1u)
Do you love @BookCourt? Do you love the Catskills? Do you love the idea of a @BookCourt *in* the Catskills? Voilà: bit.ly/17IbD1u
Karen Green's Bough Down is "a moving, strange, original, harrowing, and beautiful document of grief and reckoning." bit.ly/12bIOai
One Day in December: Claudia Sanchez and the Cuban Revolution -- new bio of Castro's right-hand woman. bit.ly/11bNPUS via @luxlotus
"Professor Incognito Apologizes" by @Austin_Grossman: how to explain when your SO finds your death ray tor.com/stories/2013/0… via @tordotcom
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"How do you turn catastrophe into art?” Julian Barnes asks. His new memoir may be one answer. bit.ly/13mAfe8 (via @Shrink_at_Large)
Book on the controversy behind the DSM-V questions whether psychiatry is really a science. bit.ly/10g5f0Q (via @magiciansbook)
Pete Wells, Guy Fieri, & the 1st-ever restaurant critic. Latest @NYTmag columnlet. nyti.ms/YA0f7i More @Awl: bit.ly/11bFLU4
MT @MillerMadeline Milliner @MairiBrunning inspired by Song of Achilles for her spring collection. Gorgeous hats! facebook.com/media/set/?set…
Moby-Dick, the card game: bit.ly/YnUfP5
.@mollycrabapple, whose OWS General Strike art went viral, releases Shell Game art w/ creative commons this May Day. bit.ly/11DwOxI
How dreams are shaped by culture: dreaming in 18th & 19th century America. b.globe.com/131mzpO via @Shrink_at_Large; featuring Mark Twain
We're pleased to announce we have a new editor: @Wralpheubanks. Read more on our blog: ow.ly/kChgD
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"My font is bigger than yours." -- commuter reading book on smartphone, to NYPL prez, who contemplates rise of ebooks nyti.ms/12myP0e
.@luxlotus and her Teddy have after-hours cocktails at the Natural History Museum. pic.twitter.com/HCyzfuRrjW
President of Turkish PEN accepts freedom to write award, cites Arundhati Roy: prison takes many forms. #pengala pic.twitter.com/eUGEBCXtQc
Police invited Roth to leave Prague, then interrogated Ivan Klima. "Don't you read his books?" Klima said. "He comes for the girls" #pengala
In Prague Roth spent time with, among others, writer & immunologist Miroslav Holub, who wrote the great poem "What Else." #pengala
Two calamities Roth says he has left to face: death, and a biography. But Roth's biographer @BlakeBaileyOn's in the house. #pengala
Philip Roth's mother used to rent books from the local pharmacy for a quarter. #pengala
"If they tell you I'm free, I'm not free" -- Chinese writer Liu Xia #shesnotfree
At @PENamerican gala where Suzanne Nossell is discussing technology, a boon for speech but also for censorship. #pengala
Just tried to buy allergy medicine without an ID. Denied. But I could have bought a gun instead. God Bless America.
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A tiny taste of Kate Christensen's (@aquavita) Blue Plate Special: tmblr.co/Zm2kZyjuMKaH
On May Day eve, wondering if @MaxxKlaxon has seen this... video for his version of "Internationale" youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKrBX… cc: @rosieschaap
"F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ledger is one of the richest primary source documents in existence for any literary author." tmblr.co/Zm2kZyju9eLK