July 24, 2012 Bulletin Dogs, Scientologists, and Ipanema By Sadie Stein Heloísa Eneida Menezes Paes Pinto, Ipanema “The Girl from Ipanema” is fifty! (Not the real one—she’s sixty-seven—but the bossa nova classic.) It is the second-most-covered song, after “Yesterday.” A graduate student at King’s College London has discovered a previously unknown 1909 short story by Katherine Mansfield in the university library. Read an excerpt from “A Little Episode” here. What these writers think about when they think about running. What Maira Kalman thinks about herself. The most beloved dogs in literature? We think Nana Darling was robbed. Portrait of the artist as a young Scientologist: a 1969 BBC interview with a teenage Neil Gaiman, then a believer. [tweetbutton] [facebook_ilike]
July 17, 2012 Bulletin This Saturday: Help St. Marks Books Relocate By The Paris Review Despite your best efforts, it looks as if our faithful friends at St. Mark’s Books will have to move. That’s the bad news. The good news—at least, if you care about keeping bookstores in lower Manhattan—is that they are trying to find a cheaper location in the East Village. Help them raise money for the move: join the “cash mob” at three o’clock this Saturday afternoon. The first five customers who spend $500 or more will receive a free one-year subscription to The Paris Review. [tweetbutton] [facebook_ilike]
July 10, 2012 Bulletin See You There: Paris Review at the Strand, Tomorrow! By Sadie Stein Mark your calendars! Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 11, join The Paris Review and the Strand for the second in a series of literary salons. Enjoy wine (from Sip) and words (read by Amber Tamblyn) with two New York institutions. See you there! Wednesday, July 11, 7 P.M.–8:30 P.M. The Strand Bookstore, third-floor Rare Book Room 828 Broadway at Twelfth Street Admission: Buy a copy of the current Paris Review or a $15 Strand gift card. To reserve your seat, click here.
June 29, 2012 Bulletin Fake Books, Real Books, and YA Austen By The Paris Review A first edition of Agatha Christie’s Poirot Investigates, complete with dust jacket, has sold at auction for a record £40,630. The Hairpin redesigns the book club. The classics, repackaged for teens. “We didn’t want to go with a muted approach,” understates the publisher. New Yorkers! Help save village institution Revolution Books. Angelenos! A star-studded Bukowski tribute. Fake books from movies that Flavorwire wishes were real.
June 26, 2012 Bulletin Code 451, Psychotic Real Estate By Sadie Stein In what might be the ultimate honor, it has been proposed that the Internet pay tribute to Ray Bradbury. Says The Guardian, “Tim Bray, a fan of Bradbury’s writing, is recommending to the Internet Engineering Task Force, which governs such choices, that when access to a website is denied for legal reasons the user is given the status code 451.” Happy birthday, Yves Bonnefoy! Letters to young poets. (And novelists, playwrights, and journalists!) Buy Bret Easton Ellis’s apartment. If you dare. To spend a lot. It is Audiobook Week, and in its honor, you can win a classic pulp noir.
June 18, 2012 Bulletin Welcome, Thessaly! By Sadie Stein Here is some exciting news: our founding Web editor and wonderful friend Thessaly La Force, in from Iowa City, is helming the Daily this week! Look forward to her inimitable wit, wisdom, and style over the coming days and make her feel at home!