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A Week in Culture: John Williams, Writer and Editor
DAY ONE Photograph by Justin Lane.7:00 P.M. Head to Idlewild Books in Manhattan for an event marking the publication of Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager. The...
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John Williams, Writer and Editor, Part 2
This is the second installment of Williams’ culture diary. Click here to read part 1. DAY FIVE Photograph by Justin Lane. 9:30 A.M. I read a profile of novelist David Mitchell by Wyatt Mason in The New...
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What We’re Loving: Porto Pim, Montana, Cat Pianos
I am currently in Missoula, attending a conference at the University of Montana. At a welcome reception last night (in which we were treated to, among other things, some delicious bison meatballs),...
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What We’re Loving: Atomic Weapons, Augustus, Ang Lee
The bronze head of Augustus with glass and alabaster eyes; from Meroë, Sudan, ca. 27–25 BC. Photo: British Museum “I have worked in an atomic weapons depot, a Veterans’ psychiatric hospital and a...
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Spoiler Alert, and Other News
Henry Wallis, The Death of Chatterton, 1856, oil paint on canvas. To die in literature is to achieve fictional immortality, argues John Williams. “Just a cursory list of memorable deaths (spoilers...
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What a Good Book Can Be: An Interview with Edwin Frank
In 1999, Edwin Frank founded New York Review Books to reintroduce out-of-print works—many in first translations from around the world—to the reading public. “From the beginning, it was our intention...
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Mrs. Stoner Speaks: An Interview with Nancy Gardner Williams
Much of my life has been lived in such secrecy. It has never been politic for me to let another know my heart. —John Williams, Augustus Nancy Gardner Williams, John Williams’s widow, lives in a...
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A Week in Culture: John Williams, Writer and Editor
DAY ONE Photograph by Justin Lane.7:00 P.M. Head to Idlewild Books in Manhattan for an event marking the publication of Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager. The...
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John Williams, Writer and Editor, Part 2
This is the second installment of Williams’ culture diary. Click here to read part 1. DAY FIVE Photograph by Justin Lane. 9:30 A.M. I read a profile of novelist David Mitchell by Wyatt Mason in The New...
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What We’re Loving: Porto Pim, Montana, Cat Pianos
I am currently in Missoula, attending a conference at the University of Montana. At a welcome reception last night (in which we were treated to, among other things, some delicious bison meatballs),...
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What We’re Loving: Atomic Weapons, Augustus, Ang Lee
The bronze head of Augustus with glass and alabaster eyes; from Meroë, Sudan, ca. 27–25 BC. Photo: British Museum “I have worked in an atomic weapons depot, a Veterans’ psychiatric hospital and a...
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Spoiler Alert, and Other News
Henry Wallis, The Death of Chatterton, 1856, oil paint on canvas. To die in literature is to achieve fictional immortality, argues John Williams. “Just a cursory list of memorable deaths (spoilers...
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What a Good Book Can Be: An Interview with Edwin Frank
In 1999, Edwin Frank founded New York Review Books to reintroduce out-of-print works—many in first translations from around the world—to the reading public. “From the beginning, it was our intention...
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Mrs. Stoner Speaks: An Interview with Nancy Gardner Williams
Much of my life has been lived in such secrecy. It has never been politic for me to let another know my heart. —John Williams, Augustus Nancy Gardner Williams, John Williams’s widow, lives in a...
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Our Favorite Sentences
Sentence diagram of the sentence Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Craig Butz, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. From Stoner by John Williams: And so he had his love...
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