Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
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The Story of Memory: An Interview with Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on The Train and Into the Water, reflects on two unreliable things: narrators and memory.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Oliver Sacks: 1933-2015
The neurologist and acclaimed author died today at the age of 82.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Rare, Personal Look at Oliver Sacks’s Early Career
Lawrence Weschler, a close friend of Oliver Sacks, looks back on the life of the best-selling author and neurologist in the early ’80s.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Urge
Oliver Sacks’s last essay for the New York Review of Books, which looks at a man with Klüver-Bucy syndrome, “which manifests itself as insatiable eating and sexual drive, sometimes combined with irritability and distractibility, all on a purely physiological basis.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Nature of a Narrative Line
September 17 Annie Dillard talks about how the narrative line has been devalued by modern physics. The narrative line to me is like a Mexican mural: flattened in perspective so all is present; cramped by detail, erotic, various, the flat depth held up in the imagination, its transience, and impermanence nakedly apparent. The narrative does […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Mysteries and Truths of Illness: A Reading List
In her essay “This Imaginary Half-Nothing: Time” (#10 on this list), poet Anne Boyer quotes another poet, John Donne: “We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats, and drink, and air, and exercises, and we hew, and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and a […]
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Reading List
Kay Redfield Jamison, William Styron and the True Stories of Mental Illness
“For individuals who live with moods that change often and intensely, life is a tempestuous experience.”
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
The Art and Business of Book Covers
Here are pieces I’ve enjoyed, new and old, about the art and business of book cover design.
Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Reading List
The Art and Business of Book Covers
Here are pieces I’ve enjoyed, new and old, about the art and business of book cover design.
