- Memory and Delusion [THE NEW YORKER]
- Best of Enemies [NEW YORK MAGAZINE]
- How Sex Talk in Literature Has Changed Over 200 Years [FLAVORWIRE]
Tag Archives: Links
[Book Nerd Links] Alphabet
[Book Nerd Links] Dickens, Murdoch, and the Ramones
- A Trove of Forgotten Writings Is Found in a Periodical Edited by Dickens [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
- Iris Murdoch’s Favorite Painting [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- Archie is a Punk Rocker Now in Crossover ‘Archie’/Ramones Comic [FLAVORWIRE]
[Book Nerd Links] Five Literary Links for a Warm Wednesday
- 20 Photos of Famous Authors Looking Badass [FLAVORWIRE]
- John Malkovich Reads Vonnegut’s ‘Breakfast of Champions’ [FLAVORWIRE]
- Born in Montparnasse [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- James Salter, 1925-2015 [THE PARIS REVIEW]
- Ludwig Bemelmans’ Paintings Offer Unique Glimpse Into The World of ‘Madeline’ [HUFFPOST BOOKS]
Love at First Site: What Should I Read Next?
The website What Should I Read Next? is exactly what it sounds like.
Users enter a favourite book title or author, and the site’s database is mined for a “similar” option. What Should I Read Next? is community driven: readers add their own lists, which in turn generate the recommendations.
Although my TBR list is already monstrously long, I decided to give it a whirl.
I intentionally chose a less-than-common novel:

A Glastonbury Romance
These are the suggestions I received:

Results, Part 1

Results, Part 2
I’m not sure how helpful those suggestions are. Middling? Surprising? It really doesn’t matter, because I could do this all day. As a time-wasting game, it’s pretty fun. If my TBR list gains a few new entries, that is delicious, fluffy icing.
If you give it a go, please let me know your results!
[Book Nerd News] Juan Felipe Herrera is the Next U.S. Poet Laureate
[Book Nerd Links] Writers’ Favourite Words
From plitter to drabbletail: the words we love [The Guardian]
My fave word is frock. What’s yours?
[Book Nerd News] Flannery O’Connor Stamp
Author Flannery O’Connor on new stamp June 5 [Linns.com]
This is exciting!
John Steinbeck Quote
Quote
“Consequently I have never even wondered about the comparative standing of writers. I don’t understand that. Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product is turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn’t mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.”-John Steinbeck (Paris Review-The Art of Fiction No. 45)
John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45 [The Paris Review]
[Book Nerd Links] 1906: Illustrations for The War of the Worlds
Terrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds’ [Flavorwire]

Martian Emerges. Image from Flavorwire.
Artwork by Henrique Alvim Corrêa.