October 2012
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“New Continent” —Georges Perec
A two-part reminiscence of the writer, artist, and feminist thinker Shulamith Firestone
“The Great LitQuake Author Poll”
Thousands of glowing books: Photos from the installation by Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus
Speak, Celebrity: Poems read aloud by Hollywood’s finest
The Ten Most-Mentioned Songs in Literature
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Eric Hobsbawm: 1917 - 2012
Jon Wiener pays tribute to Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who passed away this week:
Even though I grew up as part of the New Left that dismissed the Communist Party as authoritarian, conservative, and out of touch, Hobsbawm himself has always been a hero of mine. I still remember him at dinner in my kitchen in 1981 after a conference at UC Irvine when the news came that Reagan had been...
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When We Were “Seventeen”: A History In 47 Covers
The last book party: Publishing drinks to a life after death
Shalom Auslander on the tyranny of literary talent-spotting
Lawrence Weschler interviews ERROL MORRIS, FORENSIC EPISTEMOLOGIST
‘Ulysses’ in Pie Chart Form
Viewer Discretion: The trajectory of writer-worrier David Foster Wallace
September 2012
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First Editor
In which LARB’s James Simenc reflects on Editorial Boot Camp
by James Simenc
I felt guilty for years over a speech I gave at my eighth grade graduation. The assignment was simple: reflect on my years at the school, and list 10 lessons that my fellow classmates and I had learned. I began with the obvious platitudes — one, respect your peers; two, success requires hard work; three, learning is...
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