Results for: book
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Maurice Sendak Is Curmudgeonly, Brilliant, Tells You To Go To Hell
Whitney’s Team Pick: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” is as brilliant and curmudgeonly as ever in this mini documentary. I love you, Maurice.
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In Which You May Avail Yourself of Free Advice On How and Why to Write
Rachel’s Team Pick: “When one writes a thing — when you discover and then put it down, which is the essence of discovering it — one is done with it. What people get out of it is none of the writer’s business.”
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Who Runs the Literary World? These Girls!
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
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Get A Conversation with Eileen Myles All To Yourself
I want to help you have a conversation with Eileen Myles. It starts on the Internet.
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Rejection Letters Are Good For You, Especially When They’re Not For You
Carmen’s Team Pick: That’s what rejection letters are y’all. They’re just mistakes.
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On Style, Eileen Myles
Everything about this is something you love.
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(Un)Official Declaration of Visit Your Local Independent Bookstore Day
Borders is in the process of no longer existing, Amazon mistreats its employees, and it’s banned books week. Get thee to a(n independent) bookstore!
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Missed Connections Might Be The Best Thing About Monday
Rachel’s Team Pick: What if Missed Connections were REALLY PRETTY?
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Broad! A Literary Zine For Broads Both Classy and Otherwise
Rachel’s Team Pick: You should submit something to Broad! A Gentlelady’s Magazine!
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Bookstore Customers Say the Darndest Things
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: “Who wrote the Bible again? I’ve forgotten.”
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Reading Rainbow Flash Mob with LeVar Burton
Intern Veronica’s Team Pick: The union of reading and flash mobs is finally here.
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Eileen Myles Believes In Evil But Not Witch Hunts
Rachel’s Team Pick: “I think it’s quietly genocidal. I mean in a spiritual sense. Instead of pole dancing you can be a pleasure rug. Just lie down! The money will come.”
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Some Weird and Not So Weird Habits of Famous Authors
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: Are you weirder than some of history’s weirdest authors? Probably and that’s why I love you.
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Writing and Eating and Drinking
Riese’s Team Pick: What do famous writers eat and drink while writing? What did Carson McCullers hide in her thermos? What do food writers eat? How much does Amy Sedaris know about Literary Drinkers?
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Agustina Woodgate Brings Poetry to a Thrift Store Near You
Carmen’s Team Pick: There’s just something about a girl who makes art.
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Riese’s Team Pick: Longform Does National Magazine Awards
“The only problem with the American Society of Magazine Editors announcing the finalists for its print awards Tuesday is that now I have a really long reading list.”
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Riese’s Team Pick: Emily Gould on Pure Poetry at Poetry Magazine
“You have to seek poetry out and, at least at first, you have force yourself to swallow it. Like a scratchy vitamin.”
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Rachel’s Team Pick: Write Like A Motherf*cker
If you had a two-sided chalkboard in your living room I’d write humility on one side and surrender on the other for you.
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Riese’s Team Pick: Medium-Sized Interviews With Not-So-Hideous Men & Women
Bret Easton Ellis, Ira Glass, Tao Lin and Lydia Davis would like to have a word with you.
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Riese’s Team Pick: ‘Baby-Sitters Club’ by Bret Easton Ellis
god i need some tylenol pm right now