Number 3 chiller
Oh hiiiiiii there: Jen Doll on the trend of word lengthening.
The debased art of coining words: a glossary. Related: it’s sad that we don’t hear ‘booboisie’ any more.
How to buy your way on to the New York Times bestseller list.
‘There can’t be a novelist in America who watched The Wire and didn’t think, “Oh my God, I want to do something like that,”’ says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon, who is co-writing an HBO series about magicians who fight Nazis with his wife, novelist Ayelet
The Guardian on Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project and that advance.
What Koch achieves with his prose—plain but undergirded by breathtaking angles, like a beautiful face scrubbed free of makeup—is a brilliantly engineered and (for the thoughtful reader) chastening mindfuck.
14 classic albums reimagined as books.
No chewing on the headphone cords and other very specific rules from real libraries.
Nerd gym: a bizarre library work-out video.
The 10 sexiest books of all time?
Read 20 novels in 2 minutes, in emoji form.
You are what you read: Read more
Do we need a new punctuation mark for the digital age? Specifically, this one?
Hilary Mantel: why novelists are deliberately misunderstood.
Rothwell’s speech, like his book, is a mood piece, the intervals between make as much of the music as do the notes. That is his unusual, Rilkean, gift. Read WH Chong’s recap of last night’s event with Nicolas Rothwell at Readings Hawthorn.
Herman Koch, author of The Dinner, talks to NPR about writing, parenthood and the lengths we’ll go to to protect our families.
Proof, in case you needed it, that reading saves lives.
At a time when writers and publishers shy away from the obscure and the oblique, Rothwell’s ambition and the intricacy of his book must be acknowledged. Andrew Riemer’s review of Nicolas Rothwell’s Belomor.
If you lived in a world made of books, it might look a little something like this.
Related: how to make a headboard for your bed.
Personal ads in the New York Review of Books: helping nerds get dates since 1963.
Great illustrations for Marriage Is a Canoe, the book-within-a-book in Ben Schrank’s Love Is a Canoe.
Silent reading isn’t all that silent, apparently.
