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Susan Sontag on Art, Drawn by Wendy MacNaughton, Edited by Maria Popova. MacNaughton is selling high-quality prints of this in her etsy shop.
Oh hey, 2 NFE updates in one week? That’s right! Truth be told, I felt guilty for neglecting my duties around here, so in addition to the jumbo-sized lit link roundup on Tuesday, let’s tack on a few more bits of news.
Though the mega-Powerball has already come and gone, I still like this post: The Book-Lover’s Guide to Spending Those Powerball Winnings. Nicole Perrin tells us what she would do with $550M over at Book Riot.
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Greetings, one and all. Happy Autumn, finally. We’re heavy on the visuals in today’s literary linky roundup.
This week, Flavorwire rounded up some images of the real people who inspired works of fiction, including this Lolita-related research I have pictured here.
And speaking of Lolita, this week was also Banned Books Week. Grant Snider at Incidental Comics has a great tribute.
In other news of book-related comics, are you among the many readers of Kevin Thomas‘ Horn! Reviews? At The Rumpus, he recently reviewed Emma Straub’s Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures.
(Sometimes-Comics-Writer) Neil Gaiman just wanted to remember his hat. This is
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Greetings, fellow Word Rioters. Are you longing for Fall yet? Curling up with a good book is not quite the same when one is sweating, is it? Let’s move on.
Clint Margrave, whose poem “Pessoa’s Typewriter” appeared here in June, has a collection of poetry out with NYQ Books, The Early Death of Men. You can also win a signed copy through Goodreads.
Jess Walter was a recent guest on The Bat Segundo Show. Topics include being funny (Walter is) and taking fifteen years to write one book.
Roxane Gay has compiled a rather lengthy list of writers of color,
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(Notes From Elsewhere is a roundup of various literary things compiled by Sara Habein, along with news from past Word Riot authors. She makes no claims at being terribly current or the first to know anything, but hopefully you will find something interesting here.)
This week, now that we’re more or less back on schedule, I’ve got a super-sized edition of Notes From Elsewhere ready. Read and love, my friends.
This week in sexybusiness:
Sari Botton in “I Hate Condoms (But Not For The Same Reasons Everyone Else Does” (via xoJane)
Hugo Schwyzer in “I Can Only Be Naked When I’m
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Notes From Elsewhere is a roundup of various literary things compiled by Sara Habein, along with news from past Word Riot authors. She makes no claims at being terribly current or the first to know anything, but hopefully you will find something interesting here.)
A little internal WR news first: Wigleaf recently released their Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions list, and three stories from here have made the cut:
“The Way You Move Twelve Minutes From Home” by Stefanie Freele “Ironing” by Peter Grandbois “More Work” by Gregory Sherl
Also, WR‘s Poetry Editor, Nicolle Elizabeth, has a story on the list with
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(Notes From Elsewhere is a roundup of various literary things compiled by Sara Habein, along with news from past Word Riot authors. She make no claims at being terribly current or the first to know anything, but hopefully you will find something interesting here.)
Nick Antosca, whose Word Riot-published book Midnight Picnic came out in 2009, has a new book out, The Obese. He’s also writing for the show Teen Wolf, and his first novel, Fires, was just reissued. Here’s an interview with him over at Vol. I Brooklyn.
“Whenever someone asks me for writing advice I always feel at
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