3 days ago by Der Leser

Was die Rubrik "A Reporter At Large" bedeutet, wurde bereits erklärt. Hier ist ein weiterer Auschnitt aus dem Tummelplatz der guten Schreibe. In der der Ausgabe des New Yorker vom 24. Juli 2000 erklärt der Zeitschriftensammler Nichsolson Baker in einer Art Vorabdruck seines Buches Double Fold: Libra ...

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20 days ago by ibnkafka

Ca fait longtemps que j’ai voulu écrire ce post. Je ne suis pas un pacifiste radical: je ne suis contre l’existence d’une défense nationale, sous contrôle démocratique et sur la base du service militaire, aux seules fins de défendre le territoire national et – éventuellement - participer aux opérati ...

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26 days ago by Jason Boog

Novelist Jennifer Weiner has made a count of men and women reviewed by the New York Times. Overall, Weiner (pictured, via) found that out of 254 fiction reviews, nearly 60 percent of the featured books written by men. Her long essay also counted authors reviewed multiple times by the newspaper. Foll ...

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26 days ago by ima gonna

artificial constraint

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39 days ago

Nicholson Baker on working at the kitchen table: I work all over the house, and in the yard when it’s warm—and often at restaurants and coffee shops. But my favorite place is to write is at our kitchen table, especially when the sun comes angling in. The refrigerator turns on and off, the wall clock ...

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40 days ago

Frank Chimero’s The Being There Diary The Being There Diary asks a simple question: “What was the very best moment of your day?” Nicholson Baker: If you ask yourself, ‘What’s the best thing that happened today?’ it actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection that pulls up from the recen ...

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44 days ago by Jason Diamond

Nicholson Baker (above) shows us where he writes. A. N. Devers’ gives her top 5 Longreads read in the bathtub for the year that is about to end. Huffington Post Books pick their favorites of 2011. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo hasn’t done too hot at the box office, does that mean the sequels will ...

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65 days ago

“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around it, put the date that you’re doing the copying out, and then copy it out. You’ll find that you just soak into that prose, and you’ll find that the comma means something, that it’s there for a reason, and that that adject ...

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69 days ago by Jason Diamond

Vintage Moby-Dick fabric courtesy of Etsy. The foods of Honoré de Balzac. Dennis Cooper talks with Brad Listi at the Other People podcast. N+1 and The New York Review of Books team up for some personal ad action. Ed Park’s notes from a Nicholson Baker talk. PopMatters reviews Ersatz G.B., the latest ...

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78 days ago by Kenneth FitzGerald

Nothing is perfect; perfect is nothing. In his last year, Josef Müller-Brockmann gave a lecture in Mexico on his work. The renowned Swiss designer brought down the house with his final slide—which was blank. “This is my best piece of work,” intoned Müller-Brockmann. According to biographer Kerry Wil ...

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