April 2012
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How to Flirt in the Mid-19th Century
If you aren’t already reading Letters of Note, perhaps this literary nugget will convince you to do so. Here is Anthony Trollope’s real letter to his… mistress? Paramour? Sycophant? We don’t know. We do know he had a very, um, cold view of love and marriage.
Waltham House Waltham Cross March 24. 1861 My dearest Miss Dorothea Sankey My affectionate & most excellent...
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“This is just why Larkin is so attractive: he is smarter than we are and more...”
– Michael Dirda in The New Criterion
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“When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did...”
– Jonathan Franzen, “Pain Won’t Kill You,” from Farther Away: Essays
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An ASME Nomination
johnjeremiahsullivan:
Congrats to John Jeremiah Sullivan from all of us here at FSG: his New York Times Magazine piece “You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!” has just been named a finalist for the 2012 National Magazine Awards (Feature Writing). Read the full list of finalists here.
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“The kind of bad taste I portrayed never achieved wide success, except for...”
– John Waters, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal
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Who are the 100 best journalists of the past 100...
NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute sought to answer this question, and a host of familiar names appear: Hannah Arendt, Carl Bernstein, James Baldwin, Robert Capa, Truman Capote.
What’s even better isThe New Yorker has pulled a few of their featured writers’ pieces from the archives. (Unfortunately, just for subscribers.)
There are enough longreads here to fill a...
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Zadie Smith's "On Beauty" is Coming to Hollywood.... →
March 2012
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“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.”
– Elizabeth Hardwick
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“I remember this old guy once telling me, “To thine own self be true.” And I was...”
– George Saunders gives advice. 