If I said to you “Describe Anna Karenina,” perhaps you’d mention her beauty … if you were reading closely you’d mention her weight, or maybe even her little mustache (yes. It’s there). Mathew Arnold remarks upon “Anna’s shoulders, and masses of hair, and half-shut eyes…” But what does Anna Karenina look like? You may feel intimate with a [...]
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From a 1934 radio interview. Statue by Jo Harrison (study for Bryant Park Statue)
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Here are the most read stories from the last week in Critical Linking… This means that publishers, not brands, need to police the branded content. One improperly labeled piece of sponsored content, or poor piece of branded content on the network, can destroy a publisher’s reputation. Branded content. Get used to this phrase. ____________________________ But [...]
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Today from the Department of This Is Too Awesome Not to Share: Open Culture posted this video of Patti Smith reading from Virginia Woolf earlier this week, along with the only surviving voice recording of Woolf herself. Check out the Smith reading here, and pop over to Open Culture for more.
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The most popular posts from the week that was… F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gin, citrus, oak (prep school, amirite), in a champagne-flute shaped bottle with gold flecks in it from Perfumes Inspired by Dead Writers by Amanda Nelson ____________________________ The Never Ending Story (1984) The craziest book ever acquired in a movie has to be The Never Ending Story, which [...]
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Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!
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“I would not be faithful to the original intent of the novel if my translation made it easy to comprehend.” It’s true. Finnegan’s Wake is famous for being hard to understand, but this sounds like someone is trying to explain away a sloppy translation. ____________________________ It is one of the functions of intellectuals to express and amplify [...]
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As we make our way toward Valentine’s Day, grappling with our ice hooks and special boots through January and early February like ice climbers on a Swiss glacier, I think about romance. How it’s different for different people. How it cannot be localized to one day. How, even so, the one time my husband forgot [...]
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I’m all over the place this week! Inbox (Books Acquired) The Secret Life of a Submissive by Sarah K (HarperCollins, March 26)–Billed as a “real-life Fifty Shades of Grey” (you know that was coming, right?), this is officially the most interesting book mail I’ve received so far in 2013 (yes, the rope was included). I [...]
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James Bond is a bazillion dollar (rough estimate) film franchise, but around these parts we will proclaim from the rooftops that they were books first! BOOKS, BLAST YOU! So for no other reason than that I’ve been craving a shaken martini (I don’t actually know the difference between one that’s shaken or stirred, tell no [...]
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I can’t be the only one who gets bent out of shape when someone I love HATES a book I LOVED. Or LOVES a book I HATED. It feels personal. It’s not personal. But it feels personal. Like your mom hating your husband. Or your best friend forever being buddy-buddy with your worst enemy. We [...]
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Like mixing chocolate and peanut butter together to produce a delicious new combination (seriously, someone should market it), mixing the world of books with heavy metal also produces some fantastic combinations. It’s a strangely bookish field of music. Geezer Butler once said that Black Sabbath’s “Wizard” was about Gandalf. All of Ronnie James Dio’s career [...]
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at HTML Giant, Lines from Shakespeare Mistaken for 90s Hip Hop Lyrics at USA Today, Bedtime Story Apps for Little Readers at LitStack, Literary-Inspired Fragrances at Flavorwire, Art Inspired by YA Literature at BuzzFeed, 7 Ways People Celebrated the PRIDE & PREJUDICE Anniversary at Roxane Gay’s blog, Gentle Reminders About Writing at Huffington Post Books, Ten Things Not to Say [...]
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I am one of the most popular horror writers of my generation. I say that not brag or sound arrogant, but to set the stage for what I am about to tell you. I am one of the most popular horror writers of my generation— —and on average, I make between $30,000 and $40,000 per [...]
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On the face of it, Isaac Asimov doesn’t seem like that difficult an author to get into…and really, he’s not. His prose was always straight-forward, simple, and readable. It was absolutely bare-bones, something he was unapologetic for, and that seems easy enough. It just gets intimidating when you zoom out a little and realize that [...]
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While researching for this post I made an amazing discovery, one of those times when you stumble upon something you can’t actually believe. You see, a book is soon to be released that will certainly be one of the most talked about books of the year. But first, let’s get to four other books that [...]
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I’m switching things up a little this week. Instead of giving you clues toward guessing a specific author, I’m going to give you a requirement, and then you submit the name of an author who fits it. An example: Requirement: Authors who have adjectival forms of their names. Acceptable responses would include: Dickensian, Shakespearian, Homeric, [...]
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February 3, 2013
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Our Favorite Comments: January 2012
We love our readers, and we love what they have to say just as much. Here are some of our favorite comments from the month that was. “While the idea of print disappearing terrifies me more than I can describe, I agree that ebooks are here to stay. I also believe that the most important [...]
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