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Remembering Rosset and Sexy Hoaxes
In the Evergreen Review he founded, a moving tribute to Barney Rosset. The best-read cities in America. Cooking Cather. Mike McGrady, perpetrator of sexy ...
May 16, 2012 08:00 AM
Carlos Fuentes, 1928–2012
“When your life is half over, I think you have to see the face of death in order to start writing seriously. There are people who see the end quickly, like ...
May 15, 2012 05:27 PM | 4 comments
Dear Betty Draper Francis, Stop Weighing Your Food
Dear Betty Draper Francis, As I write this I’m live-streaming President Barack Obama’s Barnard College commencement speech on my laptop. What’s a ...
May 15, 2012 04:03 PM | 6 comments
Susan Sontag in a Teddy Bear Suit
We recommend Flavorwire’s entire, inspired list of “Extremely Silly Photos of Extremely Serious Writers,” but this is really the must-see.
May 15, 2012 02:30 PM | 2 comments
Watch This: Telling Tales
Here in New York, it’s dreary and gray. What better weather to enjoy a little Poe? No, not John Cusack. We were thinking more of this terrific 1954 animated ...
May 15, 2012 01:30 PM
As Ever
To paraphrase Mr. Bennett, my life holds few distinctions, but I do have a really good sign-off. Since I was twenty-one, I have ended all correspondence As ...
May 15, 2012 12:11 PM | 4 comments
The Spring Issue
Bret Easton Ellis and Terry Southern on the art of fiction.
An essay by John Jeremiah Sullivan and a portfolio by Geoff Dyer.
Fiction from Lorrie Moore and David Means. Poems by Adrienne Rich, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Frederick Seidel, and much more!
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