The New Yorker publishes the F. Scott Fitzgerald story it rejected 76 years ago
By the mid-1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald had published some of his best known works—This Side of Paradise in 1920, The Great Gatsby in 1925, and Tender Is the Night in… Read more »
Frank Sinatra has a cold, and other tales of uncooperative profile subjects David Remnick on his boss profile Jonah Lehrer no longer works at the New Yorker Speaking of Dylan,… Read more »
Kevin Sampsell celebrates sports books Great last lines 650 hours of email On Privacy, and coming out Moby Dick’s cultural zeitgeist An author’s got to eat, you know Yeats’ devotion… Read more »
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Chronicle of Higher Ed to publish ebooks 10 years of digital media Books that soon will be movies Authors as … sports broadcasters? Audiobooks are different Where to be a… Read more »
Love letter to Encyclopedia Brown Online browsing of scientific research Reading previous Booker Prize winners Utopia is repulsive to Amis Can the mind transcend matter? The lost Katherine Mansfield story… Read more »
An ebook primer Inspired by riches Volunteer libraries threaten author royalties? Celebrating our demise The art of social creativity Listening to the voices in your head Six minutes of Anna… Read more »
Emily Dickinson’s scissored deletions How to annoy an office with incessant clacking “The Only Thing Required of Me Now is my Own Indifference” Barry Diller and Scott Rudin to launch… Read more »
Churchill’s choice words Giving poetry new life in China Rory O’Connor on social media’s infiltration A six-year-old’s take on book covers Alice in Wonderland underwater photographs Classic, obscure children’s books… Read more »
Stephen Fry does Shakespeare Just do a Facebook search McSweeney’s vs. BuzzFeed Ebooks on the rise Watch the Mosaic Man at work Who’s doing the talking here? Snubbing books snobs… Read more »