Lead Igloo | Stories, Philosophy, Opinion
Public Library 17.12
Ubu Editions publishes the unpublishable. Invited authors were asked what makes something unpublishable, these are their responses. Works range ”from an 1018-page manuscript (unpublishable due to its length) to a volume of romantic high school poems written by a now-respected innovative poet.”
The intelligence factory: How America makes its enemies disappear. The story of Aafia Siddiqui and the disappearing [...]
Public Library 11.12
James Wood’s best books of 2009. Via The New Yorker.
Cate Kennedy on how to end a short story. Via ABC.
All That, an extract from The Pale King by David Foster Wallace. Also via The New Yorker.
Simon Winchester on Georges Perec. Via OUP blog.
Amazon to sell short stories for the Kindle. I can’t see this as [...]
Public Library 27.11
Zadie Smith on the rise of the essay. “In the first place, “well-made novel” seems to me to be a kind of Platonic bogeyman, existing everywhere in an ideal realm but in few spots on this earth.” Excellent essay on the similarities and differences between the essay and the novel. From The Guardian.
Midnight in Dostoevsky. [...]
Public Library 6.7
Ulysses as a comic. You’ll know if it’s for you.
Great story about butchering (in the professional sense) a pig by Bill Buford from The New Yorker from a few years back.
Sick of the full or double Windsor knot? Us too. That’s why we wear the Ediety/Merovingian/Matrix Knot.