I heard a rumor that Orwell wrote 1984 after working at the BBC. Confirm? (via Syntax of Things)
Bolano excerpt here, and more info here.
Blah blah blah Pulitzers.
The real question: is he related to Robert DeNiro? (Sorry, had to ask)
“The time to read Vonnegut is just when you begin to suspect that the world is not what it appears to be.”
An axe? Shut up, Jay MacInerney.
This definitely turns my stomach. Always make sure you know where you science comes from.
“Though the novel offers a broader critique of Victorian American womanhood, it also speaks to a more specific set of issues directly connected to its narrator, the handkerchief.” (via AL Daily)
I, too, think of teenage girls and crushes when someone says “diary.”