Theodore Ross has a funny—and wise—article called “Drinking off the Job,” detailing how his life has changed after his recent departure from Harper’s magazine: "The past few weeks the better part of my social life has revolved around drinks. I can’t speak to the cultural mores of other industries, but publishing tends to liberally grease the runners of those it transports out the door."
This April, OR Books is publishing Tweets from Tahrir, a collection of pivotal mini-dispatches from the epicenter of the Cairo uprising—telling the story of the Egyptian Revolution as it unfolded 140 characters at a time.
At HTMLgiant, Danielle Dutton, whose novel Sprawl was recently nominated for a Believer Book Award, eloquently wrangles with an ever-elusive question: “What is experimental literature?”
Media reporter Michael Calderone is leaving Yahoo for AOL.
New Yorkers: Throughout the day, CUNY is hosting a conference called “The Scandals of Susan Sontag,” with participants including Susie Linfield (author of The Cruel Radiance), Elaine Showalter (A Jury of Her Peers), Laura Kipnis (How to Become a Scandal), and others.
