October 2012
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“Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web” by Adrian Chen
21 Lies Writers Tell Themselves (And How They Can Stop Lying To Themselves And Become Awesome!)* by Alexander Chee
“Space shuttle Endeavour’s journey to museum will require 400 trees to be cut down” by George Dvorsky
“Ultimate Glory: A Frisbee Memoir” by Dave Gessner
“Why I...
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Fu Manchu and Things You See Out of the Corner of...
by Jeffrey Wasserstrom
LARB Asia Editor Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s latest piece on Mo Yan - China’s recent Nobel Laureate - is featured at LARB now. Below he talks about his impressions and influences when it came time to think about a very different kind of writer’s work: Sax Rohmer’s Fu-Manchu novels. One thing that I often talk about with graduate students working toward...
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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
An...
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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...
