April 2012
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Apr 30th
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Anonymous asked: Truman Capote and Harper Lee were always good friends, since childhood even. Dill in the book is based after Capote.
Apr 30th
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Patti Smith at LIVE on April 29, 2010. In this short, she tells the story of meeting Robert Mapplethorpe. Smith came on the occasion of her National Book Award winning memoir, Just Kids. Watch/listen to the full program here…
Apr 29th
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“…many people I encountered had these really backwards ideas about people...”
– Jesmyn Ward on Hurricane Katrina and her 2011 National Book Award winning novel Salvage the Bones. Read the rest of this interview to prepare for our event with Ward on Tuesday evening. Tickets still available here… (use the code “FAMILY” for 40% off!)
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Searching for the "Confederacy of Dunces"...
fsgbooks: I had nearly given up on the question of the original manuscript until a year ago when I interviewed Lynda Martin, the sister of Toole’s best friend in high school. “The manuscript?” she said in a soft southern accent. “Yes, well I have it in my closet here at home.”  An excellent tale of literary sleuthing from Cory Maclauchlin in The Millions.
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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“Freudenberger’s story collection, ‘Lucky Girls,’ and her first...”
– “Book World: Nell Freudenberger’s ‘The Newlyweds’ explores cross-cultural tensions” Freudenberger will be talking to Eliza Griswold about her new, solid novel at the Cullman Center for Writers & Scholars on May 8! Conversations from the Cullman Center are free, you just have to RSVP...
Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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“The emergence of an international protest movement without a coherent program is...”
– Slavoj Žižek, “Occupy Wall Street: what is to be done next?”
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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“Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an...”
– Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, who would be 196 today!
Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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Apr 20th
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“Some Americans have the misconception that the rest of world do not want to...”
– Azar Nafisi to Lilah Azam Zangane at the April 19, 2006 LIVE program “Who’s Afraid of Iran?”
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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“We can imagine in a similar way a bourgeois subject visiting a course of Marxism...”
– Slavoj Zizek at LIVE in November 2010. He’ll be giving a talk titled, “2011: The Year of Dreaming Dangerously” on April 25.
Apr 18th
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Apr 18th
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s wonderful TED Talk about the trope of artistic depression and the freeing notion of genius as a being channeled through a human host willing to wield the pen.
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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“Humanity has suffered enough from grossly inaccurate history told by mistaken...”
– E.O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (via wwnorton)
Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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"I know that you'll feel better when you send us... →
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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