““Steps from the ocean!” “Waterfront views!” That’s how the ad in the local yellow pages described The Starlight Hotel, that late great fleabag that enjoyed its real heyday during the twenties and thirties, before everything went to hell.”
The Blue Guitar
John Banville
“I am going to think about the night I finally fell in love with Polly, finally for the first time, that is. Anything for diversion, even though thoughts of love are what I should be diverting myself from, seeing how hot the soup is that love has got me into.”
Nom de Vie: Literary Social Media in the Age of Ferrante
On Anonymity and the Self-Promotional Author
TFW You Realize Maybe David Markson Invented Twitter
Or: The Accidental Diorama of a Novelist’s Life
Honey from the Lion
Matthew Neill Null
“By the hard time of 1904, that moment of sedition and botched rebellion, Cur Greathouse had worked four years in the Blackpine camps of Helena, West Virginia. Some called them seasons, but the wolves worked year-round, through hail and flood, illness and mood.”
Nate Marshall: The Poetic Lives of the South Side
Casey Rocheteau Talks Mixtapes, Hip Hop, and Reaching Across Identities
Quicksand
Steve Toltz
“I remember when Aldo stopped pretending to reach for the bill. It was the year his ringtone was the hum of crickets and he turned his sights on that vast potential field of golden poppies—the internet.”
Five Books Making News This Week: Fairy Tales and Furies
DeWitt, Groff, and the Evanescence of #FerranteFranzenism
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