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Weekend Bites: Dyson on Illmatic, National Bookstore Day, Bolaño “myth building”, Sesame Street, Dirty Projectors, and More.
Michael Eric Dyson wrote a book on Nas and his landmark album, Illmatic that is due out in January. Born to Use Mics is discussed in a few places: Nah Right Pitchfork Daily Swarm Lit. Philip Gourevitch is leaving the Paris Review. The Rumpus discusses Sigrid Nunez’s memoir relationship with Susan Sontag in the new issue of Tin House. Happy National Bookstore Day! Is the “myth building” around Bolaño getting to be too much? The Guardian reviews James Ellroy’s Blood’s […]
Even Sontag Was 13 Years Old Once
Anne K. Yoder of The Millions blog recently reviewed Susan Sontag’s early journals, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963. I haven’t had a chance to pick up the book yet, but Yoder’s review, entitled “The Girl’s Guide to Becoming an Intellectual”, obligingly distills Sontag’s entries into seven helpful doctrines: read and live voraciously; cultivate your ego; keep a journal; “all the world’s a stage”; make time for good sex; betray others but be true to yourself. Before becoming the mythic intellectual […]