Literary Permanence in a Disposable Age: Why Some Books Last
Literary Permanence in a Disposable Age: Why Some Books Last Consider the economy of attention we have constructed. It is engineered, with considerable ingenuity, for forgetting. The post is designed to be scrolled past. The video is measured in seconds retained. The headline is optimized for the click, not the memory. We have built vast […]
Sally Rooney Returns With INTERMEZZO: A Novel of Two Brothers, a Dead Father, and the Most…
Sally Rooney Returns With INTERMEZZO: A Novel of Two Brothers, a Dead Father, and the Most Assured Book Yet by the Defining Voice of Millennial Literary Fiction NEW YORK, September 24, 2024 — Sally Rooney publishes INTERMEZZO today, and the publishing event surrounding the arrival deserves a brief acknowledgment before the book itself does. Midnight […]
What Authors Actually Get Wrong About Fear (From an Editor Who’s Seen It All)
What Authors Actually Get Wrong About Fear (From an Editor Who’s Seen It All) Every author I have worked with arrives carrying a private inventory of dread. They fear the typo on page 212. They fear the one-star review from a stranger who clearly did not finish the book. They fear that someone, somewhere, will […]