Tonight, the New Yorker Fiction Department’s Twitter account (@NYerFiction) will start tweeting Jennifer Egan’s new story “Black Box.” The entire story, which will also appear in the magazine’s Science Fiction Issue next Monday, will be tweeted over the next ten evenings, from 8 to 9 P.M.
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—John Irving, “Trying to Save Piggy Sneed”
Tomorrow, April 23rd, I’m giving out 20 copies of “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss for World Book Night! Click through for more info, or follow WBN on Twitter: @wbnamerica or facebook: worldbooknightusa
Over the past few months, Fifty Shades Of Grey has gone from Twilight fanfiction favorite to “mommy porn” oddity to New York Times bestseller to upcoming movie to, finally, a ridiculous (and clearly rage-baiting) Newsweek cover story called The Fantasy Life of Working Women by —
You guys, remember when I told you about #mce_temp_url# ?! <—- That should say “World Book Night” so I’m not sure what happened there, but the link still takes you to the right spot.
Well, I get to give out 20 copies of The History of Love
Crying baby, must go. But, if you were charged with distributing 20 books to strangers, how would you go about it? How would you choose them?
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“‘What makes us the most normal,’” said Reiko, “‘is knowing that we’re
not normal.’”
—Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
—Ernest Hemingway (via booksandnerds)
