March 2012
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The bedrooms of your favorite writers →
Does this feel wrong? Or so, so right.
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Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Jose Saramago... →
Swoon.
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Have a few lbs to shed but don't want to give up... →
This is the diet for you. It’s the CHUBSTER plan, and it’s the only way to lose weight while still staying cool.
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“If you’re younger than 13, don’t use Tumblr. Ask your parents for an Xbox or try...”
– The new Tumblr TOS. [NPR Books site, for those of you younger than 13.] (via nprfreshair)
Tumblr is sassss-ay.
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The New Yorker's 'Unlock Your Imagination'...
Enter now for your chance to win a tablet e-reader and/or a signed copy of IMAGINE: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer.
The contest is going on now! All you have to do is enter correct answers to two riddles, and you’re entered to win. Give it a whirl, here.
Good luck! And remember, IMAGINE is in stores now if you just can’t wait!
BookStalked: Courtney E. Smith
bookstalker:
Last fall I covered Courtney’s BookCourt event for the release of her book of music-related essays, Record Collecting for Girls. One of the things I noticed about Courtney was that even though she obviously knew way more about music than most, she never veered off into snobbery. In fact, she even read from her “guilty pleasures” chapter (which includes musings on the Pussycat...
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Books that defined generations →
I read every single Nancy Drew book, every single Sweet Valley High, and every single Babysitters Club adventure. My brother hoarded Goosebumps and Choose Your Own Adventure and THE BOXCAR CHILDREN!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go be 10 again. Thanks.
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Barbra Streisand's 50th Anniversary in Showbiz →
50 years ago tonight, the inimitable Barbra Streisand made her first appearance on a Broadway stage. Biographer of the stars, William Mann, tells the story in The Huffington Post piece. Mann’s book, HELLO, GORGEOUS: Becoming Barbra Streisand, comes out this November.
Also, here’s this montage. BECAUSE WHO DOESN’T LOVE A MONTAGE??
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Win a Book Wednesday!
Enter now for your chance to win a SIGNED copy of New York Times-bestselling author Jonah Lehrer’s IMAGINE: HOW CREATIVITY WORKS. Read an excerpt. Visit the Facebook page.
Enter here.
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?
From the...
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“It’s tough to associate creativity with mental illness because obviously if...”
– Jonah Lehrer, on the link between depression and creativity. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)
From his new book, IMAGINE.
“This is why I don’t read books. People who read tend to be anti-social and...”
– Comment on Ann Arbor man punched during literary argument
via @meaghano via @mcnallyjackson
(via housingworksbookstore)
It’s true.
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“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”
– Philip Roth
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“Writing turns you into somebody who’s always wrong. The illusion that you...”
– Philip Roth, American Pastoral
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“You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn’t annihilate human...”
– Philip Roth, American Pastoral
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Nada Bakri on Morning Joe →
Nada Bakri talks to Morning Joe about her late husband, Anthony Shadid, and his most personal work, HOUSE OF STONE.
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WatchNada Bakri on her late husband Anthony Shadid (and his memoir HOUSE OF STONE), this morning on the Today Show.
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WatchNada Bakri talks to Democracy now about her husband, the lat Anthony Shadid, and his most personal work, HOUSE OF STONE.
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“It’s hard to write funny, especially when your world is crumbling around you,...”
– Andre Dubus III, author of Townie, on SUGARHOUSE by Matthew Batt, June 2012.
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