February 2012
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“Head on pillow, box resting on his stomach, McDonovan presses his tongue on the...”
– New flash fiction at Tin House: Prison, Crystal, Pants, by Shane Jones | Tin House
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On the film adaptation of "Housekeeping" →
In which elisabethdonnelly looks at the film made from Marilynne Robinson’s novel:
[Did you know] that there was a film adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s masterpiece Housekeeping? It starred Christine Lahti. Tried watching it recently: beautiful images, clearly good acting, and it felt quiet, meaningful, and dated. Copious amounts of voice over by a novice young female actor that...
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“But then I think I suffer from one of the prejudices of my age, and perhaps a...”
– Alexander Chee reads Janet Malcolm’s Two Lives, and makes some smart observations about art and politics and more. Two Lives, More | Koreanish
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At the Kenyon Review, Weston Cutter talks about... →
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Frustratingly, this conversation is dominating how people are talking about the book—as if D’Agata’s intransigence or Fingal’s over-the-topness about factual accuracy (does the color of the brick surrounding the hotel the young man threw himself from really really matter?) ultimately has anything to do with the serious questions the book’s trying to get us to consider.
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“Eric Obenauf, at the Columbus, Ohio, indie Two Dollar Radio, bought world rights...”
– Deals: Week of February 13, 2012
Lapham's Quarterly: Edith Wharton was a prude? We... →
laphamsquarterly:
Hi there, Jonathan Franzen. We hope you are having a lovely Tuesday. So you say Edith Wharton was a prude, confined largely to a sexless marriage, hemmed in by plainness and haunted to write about the very beauty and passion that was lacking in her own life?
But have you read her porn?…
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