In anticipation of Baz Lurhmann’s “The Great Gatsby” opening in theaters this weekend, John Hockenberry spoke with novelists Chang-Rae Lee, Jeffrey Eugenides and Nell Freudenberger about the novel’s influence on their writing and the difficulty of transferring Nick Carraway’s voice to the big screen.
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6 things you’ll never hear from an english major
(Source: tetragona, via lifeinsmallpresspublishing)
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“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”-Ursula K. LeGuin(Source: twolisoneyang)
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New this week: three Christopher Isherwood reprints (gorgeously designed by Charlotte Strick), Hour of the Red God by Richard Crompton, The Greek House by Christian Brechneff, Unmastered by Katherine Angel, and the scrumptious Candy by Samira Kawash.
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Haruki Murakami bingo by the inimitable Grant Snider.
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The best Nicholas Sparks novel ever written. (You read that right.)
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“I suppose you could call it a retro diner, but what diner isn’t? They’re all designed to make you think fried food won’t kill you because it’s the 1950s and nobody knows any better, and besides, there’s a chance you haven’t been born yet.”
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(via Marc Johns)
Oh honey, let me help you with that.
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Jeffrey Eugenides on The Great Gatsby
