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In 1983 Orson Welles pitched HBO a miniseries on a coup in an island nation (NOT, he'd have you know, the Dominican): harp.rs/4v4sr8y
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Estimated amt. by which federal tax revenue will increase if the Defense of Marriage Act is overturned: $35,000,000 (Jun ’13) #HarpersIndex
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MT @luxlotus June 4: @MashaHamilton returns from Kabul to talk conflict and What Changes Everything with @maudnewton facebook.com/events/2442315…
Per @willienelson: text FOOD to 32333 to send $10 to OK Food Bank. Via Oklahoman @KimRandallCox, orgs on the ground: bit.ly/10RfOmF
.@SmithsonianMag says assessment "worst tornado in the history of the world" is "quite apt" blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013… h/t@RamCNN
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J.M. Coetzee calls on Spain to drop plans to protect bullfighting. n.pr/10dJD0A (via @marksarvas)
Clouzot’s 1956 documentary tracks Picasso's creation of now-destroyed paintings via time-lapse. bit.ly/12p6hob cc: @bookofsand
David Simon: 'I couldn't operate under your British press laws' gu.com/p/3fmnj/tw (via @ObsNewReview)
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After Cannes preview, Harvey Weinstein (I know) equates secret of new J.D. Salinger doc to secret of The Crying Game. bit.ly/YTPfQf
Gotta read The Woman Upstairs after @embot's & @Sam_Sacks' differing reviews. bit.ly/12NQLCN on.wsj.com/YTOCWO via @emmagarman
Excellent. Rupert Thomson -- @RupertThomson1 -- is on Twitter.
Ellen Ullman: "Woman programmers" had the "terrible burden of being not only good but the best." nyti.ms/11KHEXZ (via @katelaurielee)
RT @paulbogaards Bark, Lorrie Moore's first story collection in fifteen years, coming in March '14.
"You have written a critical essay on me that is as spontaneous & friendly as a letter." Italo Calvino to Gore Vidal: nyr.kr/10WmyEr
Hilary Mantel's ideal reading day: "no time limit, no e-mails stacking up, dinner appearing on a floating tablecloth" nyti.ms/10WbTK7
"The 'Best American' collections are the literary equivalent of K-tel records." @GregoryCowles on old anthologies: nyti.ms/19EX3Hb
Yes. // MT @Steffikeith I don't understand how the Village Voice can lay off @mikeymusto. His name is practically synonymous with the paper
(Apparently the Torah requires that skirts fall 4 inches below the lowest part of the knee.)
My latest @NYTmag columnlet: a sign in my hood denouncing "immense pritzus" of "short" skirts. nyti.ms/12h9MwM pic.twitter.com/7ZWFuzXF2M
Enjoying Ancestors, William Maxwell's family history, a @terryteachout recommendation. #fridayreads
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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