Jill Abramson, the former Times executive editor, revealed more details of the media company she’s working on with journalist Steven Brill. Abramson says she’ll pay $100,000 advances (yes, you read that correctly) to writers so they can work on novella-length stories that will be featured online, with one new story appearing each month.
At the Paris Review Daily, authors Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree discuss their new book, Our Secret Life in the Movies, a book of short stories about the writers’ year spent watching the entire Criterion Collection together. “We were watching two or three movies a day, eating a lot of pizza, drinking a lot of sambuca,” Tyree says. “Our book evolved naturally from the feeling that movies and life seep together out there in the fog.”
Each year, interns at the Los Angeles Review of Books publish their own edition, the LARB Intern Magazine.
On the n+1 website, a short story (read: true-life tale) by Kaitlin Phillips, the millennial love-child of Renata Adler and Elaine Dundy. “Hanna Liden once told me, ‘I don’t like new faces.’ It was the first thing she said after we were introduced. She ignored me for the rest of dinner.” “Younger poets seem to be feeling a lot. Like quite often they say, ‘Sorry I didn’t email you I was dead inside of late but now is now now.'” Find “YOLO Ethics” here.
Tom Magliozzi, one of the hosts of the long-running NPR show “Car Talk,” has died. He was seventy-seven.
Condé Nast is moving from Times Square, where the company has lived for fifteen years, to the new World Trade Center building, where eighteen magazines will occupy 1.2 million square feet on twenty-four floors. The company’s law firm gets the highest floor in Condé Nast’s name, the forty-fourth. The New Yorker gets the thirty-eighth. New Yorker writers will now have to share offices with a colleague, the New York Times reports, and more desks will sit in open rooms.