Good News For People Who Read Bad News
Soothsayers from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency issued a heartening report last week that’s worth a read (or a re-read if it’s been a rough Monday). According to a bunch of numbers they found while conducting research, the written word may be in better shape than the dour popular report holds
Yesterday brought you Full Stop editors as famous authors. Today, in Really Very Important Breaking Literary News, we bring you authors as legos.
The Great Gatsby: The Video Game
Turning The Great Gatsby into a 3-D movie? Still a hilariously awful idea. Turning The Great Gatsby into an 8-bit video game? Genius. In The Great Gatsby: The Video Game you play as Nick Carraway and technically look for Gatsby but mostly just go to parties and kill butlers and flappers with your hat. Just […]
If you aren’t checking in with HTMLGiant at least once a day then shame on you: it’s one of the best sources for engaging and hilarious literary commentary on the web. Case in point: Raskolnikov’s Inbox. (via Bookslut)
Full Stop Web Editor (also my bff) Eric Jett and I spent much of our Sophomore year at college reducing a great deal of pre-20th century Romantic and lyric poetry to crass jokes about lovin’ ladies (We wrote WWJD — Women Want John Donne — on our fridge that year and were very pleased with […]
B-Sides and Rarities: Philipp Meyer
The introduction I wrote for my interview with Philipp Meyer is more of a review than a lede. I struggled to make it more conventional and “hooky,” but kept going back to what I had written initially. The finished product, though, was inspired by a paragraph that I cut — when I think something is […]
Introducing B-Sides & Rarities
For the sake of continuity or length, a lot of interesting, revealing stuff ends up on the cutting room floor. But a lot of what ends up on the cutting room floor — whether it be passages from reviews and essays or exchanges from interviews — is revealing, funny, or just plain interesting. B-Sides and […]
the Shubert Sunday night roundup
I read a lot of great stuff online this week. Check it out.
David Backer, who runs Fiction Daily and is a contributing editor at this site, recently told me that he occasionally describes our site to people “as the Jimmy Fallon of online literary magazines.” I’m still not sure quite what to make of this, but I’ve slowly come around to the idea — I may not […]
We’re introducing a new series in which we showcase pictures of our editors looking vaguely like a famous author! Jesse Montgomery as Thomas Pynchon! Amanda Shubert as Marilynne Robinson! Eric Jett as Jonathan Swift! Max Rivlin-Nadler as Barbara Kingsolver! Nika Knight as Lorrie Moore! Actually, this is probably the only time this will happen. A […]