Books Grow Longer
Several recent high profile books, like Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries or Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, are hefty tomes. As it turns out, these outliers are part of a larger trend toward longer books....
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Writers often find grants to help them write, but writers also need to read. The Luminaries author Eleanor Catton, last year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize, plans to set money aside to award grants...
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In the New Statesman, Oliver Farry investigates the times we notice anachronisms in film, television, and literature—and why we care.Related Posts:No Offense, But…The Rumpus Saturday Essay:...
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What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book
Baby, it’s cold outside. When the holiday season ends, we’re left with the prospect of two or three months of dreary, gray days punctuated by snow bomb cyclones and unseasonably warm respites from the...
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