Today would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday. Daniel B. Roberts at Salon makes the case for giving more credit to Wallace’s work as a journalist. If you want more Wallace, join in on the #dfw50 conversation on Twitter. Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, Anita Desai, Steven Millhauser, and Julie Otsuka are the finalists for the 2012 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Today also marks the anniversary of the 1925 debut of The New Yorker. Five Bushwick writers talk about how to get […]
Morning Bites: James Franco summer school, Melville’s birthday, Lemony Snicket on “The Astral,” and more
Today, we’ve got James Franco teaching more, the Moby-Dic writer would be celebrating his 191st birthday (if he wasn’t dead), the New Yorker makes a milli, and much more.
Bites: New Yorker Covers, Gay Hamlet, Ole Miss Wants Faulkner, Spring Indies, and More
At EmDashes, the four covers created for the 85th anniversary issue of The New Yorker. Was Hamlet gay? Superman goes for a million. The Rumpus lets us know about new fiction on Muumuu House by Megan Boyle Faulkner as a mascot? Three Guys One Book talk about spring indies. At The Faster Times, Michael Kimball Interviews Christopher Higgs