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“If I’m anything I’m a post- humanist.” John Banville talks with Anne K. Yoder. (See also.)

HLO interviews Miljenko Jergovic, author of the excellent Sarajevo Marlboro, who apparently also works as a journalist. (Via.)

Vladimir Nabokov famously instructed his wife Vera to destroy his final, unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, if he didn’t live to complete it. At his death, the draft consisted of a stack of notecards which he’d shuffled through, added to, and rewritten right up until the end. Vera, having once saved an early version [...]

The first installment of Chapters, the Girls Write Now reading series I’m curating, will feature the talented Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the new novel Wench. She’ll be introduced by my friend and fellow board member Tayari Jones, and after her guest reading, several of the girls will share their own work,Doudoune Moncler Pas Cher. The event is this [...]

Robert Pinsky is judging 3 Quarks Daily’s Arts & Literature Prize for blog entries written after February 21, 2009. First prize is $1000. Nominate your favorites.

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Jay Atkinson visits Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville, quotes Harry Crews, makes me wonder how many of us found our way to her from his class. (See also.)

Winston Riley has posted a new teaser for his Walker Percy documentary. This one coincidentally relates to my recent post (and your comments) about the interconnectedness of stories and ideas. While Percy was laid up with tuberculosis,Doudoune Moncler, he read Thomas Mann and other “literature of the alienated self.” He also immersed himself in Heidegger, Kierkegaard, [...]

The formidable Ishmael Reed (Mumbo Jumbo) argues, in “Fade to White,” that responses to Precious (trailer above) break down along racial lines, with white viewers applauding its candor, and black viewers infuriated by its offensive, ham-handed stereotypes. This stratified response is no surprise, he says, because the film intentionally panders to white audiences: “In guilt-free [...]

J,air jordan femme. Keir Howard ponders the complicated influence of the Bible on modern medicine. (Eternal OUP disclosure.)

“[E]very shut-eye ain’t sleep, every goodbye ain’t gone.” Elizabeth Alexander on Lucille Clifton.

Last year I wrote a story about the secret history of Cracker Barrel,air jordan femme, Sodom and Gomorrah, and, possibly, the Illuminati. I did this for the Significant Objects project, which invites writers to infuse an otherwise worthless object with value through fiction. In so doing, I raised a little (very little) bit of money for Girls [...]

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“What you can finally not say ‘no’ to”: Mark Vernon, spurred by reading of Iain McGilchrist, contemplates the essentially negative exchange between the hemispheres of the brain.