Don't Lock Us In A Dark Room
Yesterday, we had a fight. Like a cat on steroids. Cuckolds and sergeants have concussed us. A clarification, these were sneaky, dirty bastards, jumping us. Our masculinity remains intact. On Monday we posted a link to Katie Roiphe’s essay in the New York Times Book Review; naturally a little row came about (God forbid one takes a shot at David Foster Wallace). In response, we bring you two male reactions. You knew it was coming. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Gilbert — yes, a woman — discussed sex in her book Eat, Pray, Love. Well, her new book takes it up a notch, to marriage. We’re not going to pick a fight with Tina Brown over what to read. Drinking begets fighting, but we didn’t fight when we had a drink at Square Books. Read why in Poets & Writers. Finally, we’re offering — yet again — a link to (another) forecast of the future of publishing. How many fingers are YOU holding up? – Andrew Geer
– Have you ever loved a writer or book real hard? So hard that when someone got her or him—or it—all wrong, it was like you’d just been gutted? Well, then: the Katie Roiphe essay, from this weekend’s New York Times Book Review…David Foster Wallace does not belong in an essay about the droopy-dicked tendencies of Benjamin Kunkel and Jonathan Safran Foer. — Seth Colter Walls in The Awl
– The whole “generational” gambit upon which this critique rests is pretty lazy and despicable. And I’m pretty sure Katie Roiphe shouldn’t be making sweeping assessments of college girlfriends she’s never met. But I basically agree with her. — Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block in The Rumpus
A Great Place For A Gin & Tonic
– The first thing customers notice when they enter Square Books—apart from the customary shelves and tables overflowing with hardcovers and paperbacks—is the signed author photographs. There are hundreds of them, occupying nearly every vertical surface not already taken up by bookcases. — Square Books in Poets & Writers
– When Elizabeth Gilbert was writing “Eat, Pray, Love” (2006), her quirky account of a year spent variously in Italy, India and Indonesia, she had no idea that it would become a monster best-seller. That’s probably a big reason why it went on to become the staple of a thousand book groups: It is full of hilariously unguarded and sometimes wince-making disclosures—particularly about sex—that a writer conscious of the eyes of millions might have omitted. — Committed in The Wall Street Journal
– For Morning Edition‘s monthly feature “Word of Mouth,” Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief Tina Brown shares with NPR’s Steve Inskeep the three best things she has read lately. — Tina Brown’s Must Reads on NPR
– Former publisher, Richard Nash has never been one to hold back his voice on how he feels the book publishing industry needs to make dramatic changes. We asked him what he sees happening in the next 10 years and here is what he had to say. — The Future of Publishing in Media Bistro
Video: Richard Nash at Book Expo America
