Just when you thought it was safe to open a book... it's the
Literary Review's annual Bad Sex Award! (
Previously) This year's nominees include works by
Tom Wolfe,
Ben Masters,
Nicola Barker,
Paul Mason,
Nancy Huston,
Craig Raine,
Nicholas Coleridge, and
Sam Mills. Not on the list? J.K. Rowling's
The Casual Vacancy--despite "a couple of queasy moments," in the
words of TLR senior editor Jonathan Beckman--and E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, since the award "is not intended to cover pornographic or expressly erotic literature." Snippets from the nominated books can be found at the Guardian link.
posted by Cash4Lead
on Nov 21, 2012 -
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8-bit illustrations of opening lines to classic short stories by Kafka, Bukowski, Barthelme, and others. Oliver Miller, the creator of the series, writes:
I... love short stories. I was an English major, and then I got an MFA in writing. Before that, I was a nerd who huddled in a basement, with his nerd friends, clicking with a mouse to play Bard’s Tale II. So basically, making 8-bit drawings of short stories encapsulates my whole life and, I hope, yours as well.
posted by Cash4Lead
on Jul 14, 2012 -
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Gabriel García Márquez has dementia and can no longer write. According to his brother, Jaime, the Nobel laureate author of
One Hundred Years of Solitude and
Love in the Time of Cholera is suffering side effects from treatment for lymphatic cancer that have accelerated the onset of dementia, which runs in his family. García Márquez has not written anything since his last novel,
Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, in 2007. Among the works left uncompleted will be the second half of his autobiography
Living to Tell the Tale.
posted by Cash4Lead
on Jul 13, 2012 -
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For his 2008 novel
The Museum of Innocence, about a man who obsessively collects objects associated with his beloved and eventually creates a museum of those objects in his beloved's old house, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has built a museum in a house in Istanbul containing the objects mentioned in the novel, including a half-eaten ice cream cone (made of plastic) and 4,213 cigarette stubs, complete with lipstick and ice cream stains. Elif Batuman
reports on how the museum, which opened in April, came to be.
posted by Cash4Lead
on Jun 6, 2012 -
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