“Byatt makes explicit and overdetermined what might have been more lightly suggested” James Wood on The Children’s book at the LRB.
“Byatt makes explicit and overdetermined what might have been more lightly suggested” James Wood on The Children’s book at the LRB.
What scene would I want to be enveloped in
more than this one,
an ordinary night at the kitchen table,
floral wallpaper pressing in,
white cabinets full of glass,
the telephone silent,
a pen tilted back in my hand?
But beyond this table
there is nothing that I need,
not even a job that would allow me to row to work,
or a coffee-colored Aston Martin DB4
with cracked green leather seats. [Link ]
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The more sides a street sign has, the higher the danger level it invokes. #onlyanengineer http://t.co/ypmBpHTh
RT @GuardianBooks: Stlll time to download Julian Barnes's Arthur and George on audiobook. Arthur as in Conan Doyle. A great read. http: ...
About time, if you ask me. RT @TheOnion: FAA To Ban Plane Crashes http://t.co/2j5gK1LS
Chilling at the Admirals club in Chicago, hanging out with Quentin Tarantino. Yeah.
+1 RT @sarahw: Michael Idov on "the movie set that ate itself" in November's GQ is amazing. http://t.co/uQl8h8sQ #longreads
Did Stephenson make Reamde too accessible? http://t.co/FigTkXTK
RT @jonathanchait: Paul Ryan and the fantasies of inequality deniers http://t.co/f0HBcmje
Will English lose it's apostrophe's soon? http://t.co/UzTVM3KI (via @bookbench)
NYTimes: The Hazards of Confidence. http://t.co/wZfhP0BU
Another area where paper books are better than the Kindle: toilet reading. - http://t.co/5OILXdOi
Err... The Literary Saloon. Blame a long flight and some liquids I was served.
The Literary review collects a bunch of 1Q84 reviews - http://t.co/g8KANHAq
The GOP's incentive to obstruct and the media's inability to call it like it is. http://t.co/YJAQNaPD
Michael Dirda gushes about Murakami's "1Q84" http://t.co/WjJmURvi (via @MAOrthofer)
The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: Alexis Madrigal in The Atlantic. http://t.co/Hu0wpSYL
Looks like Stephenson has a big winner on his hands with Reamde: http://t.co/XfyEbrnZ, http://t.co/oEMVWl29, http://t.co/b5aqq22B
Barry Duncan, master-palindromist. http://t.co/tKOJLtR (via @somethingtoread). The Greenward palindrome is here http://t.co/ctav2g5
The Comfort Zone by Jonathan Franzen http://t.co/eXWPmmj via @TheByliner
It does not take a god to know what a hamdryad is anymore. http://t.co/703QPRp via @somethingtoread
MT @Esquiremag: Astounding lunch reading. @TheNation on CIA sites in Somalia: http://thenat.in/qMv64A #longreads
How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund. http://nyr.kr/oowl1L #longreads
RT @anupkaphle: MUST READ: Afghanistan is now India's problem. http://t.co/vFWh7Sm (v @mvatlarge)
+1 MT @mvatlarge: How can India expect clout in world when it can't lean on its neighbor led by the thuggish Rajapaksa http://t.co/Vo9T4PY
I always suspected that there was something behind the huge increase in cellphone use: http://t.co/GLO7ORd
How John Kerry Tries to Put Out Diplomatic Fires - NYTimes.com http://nyti.ms/qk0YMz #longreads
Putting together a sports team of winners? Men need not apply - latimes.com http://lat.ms/n4DZdA
The previous Allan Seager tweet was via @somethingtoread
One of Allan Seager’s short stories endures in ways that none of Hemingway’s can match. http://t.co/n73vlkY
Apathy isn't easy, tbh. Especially epic apathy. @mvatlarge The famed Mumbai spirit was probably epic apathy all along. http://nyr.kr/qDTJ91
A great read if there ever was one - from the Atlantic archives. Oscar Night in Hollywood; Chandler. http://bit.ly/pRM1aX #longreads
And a very good book too. RT @longformorg: There's nearly a book worth of reading in our @Lawrence_Wright archive: http://bit.ly/q78YSX
Now, that's an idea for myspace.Pity he sold it already. RT @pourmecoffee: You don't need an invite for your stuff to be shared on Murdoch+.
While on The Atlantic, here is a favorite blogger on Murdoch, circa 2003 : http://theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2003/09/fallows.htm
+1 MT @pbump: The Atlantic could share great articles every 5 mts for wks w/o writing anything new.On the ValuJet crash: http://p-bu.mp/co8
Great Langewiesche reads @Byliner: http://bit.ly/q4RjSt including a couple of personal favorites - http://bit.ly/dDq3h9 & http://bit.ly/dO208D
From the superbly curated @somethingtoread, purveyor of hand-picked awesomeness, a phone-hacking scandal reading list. http://bit.ly/n6HUPV
MT @sarahw: Two must reads about the #notw situation & Murdoch's role: BBC's Paul Mason: http://bbc.in/nD9onD @carr2n: http://nyti.ms/oq0Qfs
It takes @TheEconomist to call it a spade. The Republicans are playing a cynical political game with America's debt http://econ.st/p08mUs
Why was most of the UK media silent as the phone hacking sscandal developed? http://bit.ly/lPjbM8 (via @somethingtoread) #longreads
The story of the one man National Institutes of Health - http://bit.ly/jGhsON (via @thedailydish)
Across Africa, elephants are slaughtered to satisfy the spike in ivory demand from newly rich China. http://vnty.fr/qhv1Cu #longreads
Midnight reading from @Byliner: Jon Krakauer. http://bit.ly/reaP6t
Larry David's debut is marginally funny, making it better than most Shouts & Murmurs columns. http://nyr.kr/m3LEPX
Andrew Marantz spends a summer at an Indian call center, watching bright kids slip into someone else's identity. http://bit.ly/rqBcSs
The modern stomach contains undigested pieces of its own history. http://bit.ly/iGO2uv (v @theByliner)
Can Sheryl Sandberg upend Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture? http://nyr.kr/khQCkW #longreads
With a name like that... Ransom Center blamed for collecting too aggressively. http://econ.st/kJNWT8 (v @The Economist)
A democratic China will be much more assertive and belligerent. http://bit.ly/jBbBhg (v aldaily.com) #longreads
On the Louisiana oil spill, Transocean's defiant strategy seems to be paying off. http://buswk.co/jhyjXA
RT @GuardianBooks: Fresh claim over role the FBI played in suicide of Ernest Hemingway http://gu.com/p/3va6p/tf
Summer reading recommendations @FinancialTimes http://on.ft.com/kLBBFl (v @MAOrthofer)
Michael Lewis on Mark Twain's autobiography - 'A good joke spoiled.' http://bit.ly/luiTSn v @mathitak
Michael Lewis on Mark Twain's autobiography - 'A good joke spoiled.' tnr.com/article/books-… #longreads v @mathitak
Six classic business books - good reads from a much maligned genre. http://econ.st/mtOxdq via @theeconomist
Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds http://nyti.ms/mvhPvs
“The War for 'Catch-22" on the 8 year genesis of Heller's book. http://t.co/8AHkXDr
Fall of the House of Busch." Tragedy, scandals and Budweiser dynasty http://buswk.co/jfy9EF v (@longreads)
Roald Dahl slept with "every girl on the East and West coast worth more than 50k," all for Britain. http://bit.ly/iway4s (@manish_vij)
What I’m Reading This Summer: Junot Díaz http://nyr.kr/jsxmlx
India generates the most bogus Google takedown requests. http://t.co/BfnrTnG
Inside LulzSec: Chatroom logs shine a light on the secretive hackers http://bit.ly/iMdEWR
Thanks for this! MT @prempanicker: Whenever Dravid and Laxman play their last game, I hope Updike can chronicle it... : http://nyr.kr/9UQPaK
RT @nilanjanaroy: "In short: he is secretly young." John Le Carre on Smiley, and on his own youth in Germany. http://bit.ly/mKSrRk
Must be true because the game inspires writing like this classic DFW piece on Federer. http://nyti.ms/J8duk
Geoff Dyer on why tennis is the most beautiful game http://bit.ly/jATPR3 (via @somethingtoread)
+1, great post. RT @supriyan: this is fine, fine sportsblogging. RT @sidvee Dravid and the mastery of the struggle http://bit.ly/lANqWd
Almost everything a long form aggregator should be, and then some more. Byliner (@theByliner) is awesome. http://byliner.com
Typical Taibbi takedown of Bachmann - a bit overblown but fun to read. http://bit.ly/in2CtM
Typical Taibbi takedown of Bachmann - a bit overblown but fun to read. http://bit.ly/in2CtM
How Bitcoin works: http://econ.st/jskYL5 As explainers go, difficult to top this one from the @theeconomist
What were they thinking, episode 1129: Ex-spy says Bush asked CIA to spy on Iraq war critic Juan Cole. http://nyti.ms/k4stVR @mvatlarge
Finally, reason to go there after 5. Ok, 4. @mvatlarge: Starbucks might sell beer and wine. http://t.co/x5xJAbO
DFW Interviews, both cut and uncut. http://bit.ly/kMz2bG via @ScottEsposito
Thieves Found Citigroup Site an Easy Entry http://nyti.ms/mmePKu
The Greatest Paper That Ever Died - the paper that changed everything about sports journalism & lost $150m. Fascinating http://es.pn/miw6iW
Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts... http://bit.ly/lTH9bm
Jhumpa Lahiri on the events that made her a writer. http://t.co/rVBhVde
Disney interns spend long hours flipping burgers, acting happy and cleaning up "protein spills." http://bit.ly/j3eUjT
Longform.org's Guide to Detroit: From the World War II boom to "ruin porn," 5 of the best. http://bit.ly/m9N9Uz
How pharmaceutical companies "influence" medical journals... http://bit.ly/j2OT59
Talking to the public about cell phones, safety, and cancer risks http://bit.ly/mkWq1Z
Naipaul : Equal opportunity insulter. http://bit.ly/lb2SzF (via @maudnewton)
RT @mvatlarge: Every reporter in Pakistan knows if they get call from "Col. Tariq" they've fallen afoul of ISI: http://bbc.in/itZJvj sidebar
Must read. The usability of passwords. http://bit.ly/cy7LnK (via James Fallows)
Uggh. RT @GuardianBooks VS Naipaul finds no women writer his literary match - not even Jane Austen http://bit.ly/lvcjA0
Nature 'is worth billions' to UK http://bbc.in/mwm0rx (via @pourmecoffee)
"Research" : Romance novels dangerous to women. http://nyr.kr/k158E7
Long (2009) interview with Joseph O'Neill. http://marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/the-joseph-oneill-interview/
Mideast Uses Western Tools to Battle the Skype Rebellion http://on.wsj.com/iDal1h
Payback might be a bitch, but the urge for revenge is universal, and the stuff of great drama. http://t.co/nKhFdFm via @aldaily
Revolving doors of the 8,000-crore English book publishing business is (sic) spinning like a roulette wheel http://bit.ly/kmk4yE @MAOrthofer
And do read this: Cricket and the Mystery story , from an American perspective. http://bit.ly/jLYn9R
Which sports produce the best literature? http://bit.ly/itgzZq (Cricket, obviously. Netherland, Corner of a Foreign Field... )
Five epic heists from longform.org, including my favorite, the collar bomb heist. http://slate.me/kKHeFw
The secret world of child brides: http://bit.ly/lMWedi (via the invaluable http://bit.ly/3UEAKM)
The audacity of Dupe: Fraud in Chinese companies listed in the US. http://nyti.ms/jlKCwf (via @NickKristof)
The audacity is of Dupe: Fraud in Chinese companies listed in the US. http://nyti.ms/jlKCwf (via @NickKristof)
The People vs. Goldman Sachs http://j.mp/jSeDLI
Publishing a Hindu newspaper in Pakistan. http://bit.ly/iIrN36
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