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Zadie Smith reads from On Beauty
"Is it Plath? That's wrong, isn't it?' 'It's Shakespeare,' said Christian, wincing slightly. 'Tempest." Zadie Smith revisits a humorous and awkward scene from her campus novel, On Beauty.
Sam Lipsyte reads from The Ask
"America, said Horace, the office temp, was a run-down and demented pimp." With The Ask, Sam Lipsyte sets new standards for authors of artful bile.
Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible
Authors Inga Kuznetsova, Jonathan Lethem, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk discuss the best—and worst—of all possible worlds; moderated by Bookforum editor Albert Mobilio.
Hipster Christianity
Brett McCracken, Erik Thoennes, Craig Hazen, Matt Jenson, and Stan Jantz discuss McCracken's book Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide.
Mary Gaitskill reads "Lost Cat"
Mary Gaitskill dwells on love and pain, humans and pets, in this story about a stray cat. "Many people, perhaps most, would consider my feelings neurotic, a projection onto an animal of my own loneliness and fear."
Mildred Pierce: The HBO Miniseries
A trailer for Todd Hayne's HBO series starring Kate Blanchett. The script, which Haynes cowrote with author Jon Raymond, maintains a stunning faithfulness to the James M. Cain novel on which it's based.
An Interview with David Shields
David Shields reflects on his controversial, genre-blurring book Reality Hunger. "It was crucial to me that the reader feel slipper sand beneath his or her feet."
Tweets from Tahrir edited by Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns
The revolutionaries in Egypt owe at least some of their success to Facebook and Twitter. Now, a new book examines the role social media can play in political change.
Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story
A book trailer for Gary Shteyngart’s satirical novel Super Sad True Love Story, featuring an all-star cast including Edmund White and James Franco, and a primer on how to behave at a Paris Review party.
Electric Literature's Single Sentence Animation: Rick Moody
The people behind the excellent Electric Literature produced this short, strange work of animation by Adam Thompson, which builds on a single sentence from Rick Moody's story "Some Contemporary Characters."
Chris Lehmann's Rich People Things
Living La Dolce Vita: Here's the Fellini-riffing trailor for Chris Lehmann's essay collection Rich People Things.
Happy John Ashbery Day
If you live in New York City—or anywhere, really—today, April 7, is John Ashbery Day. And while this does not mean that we get the day off from work, we nonetheless have been searching for ways to pay homage to the great poet. Here's a good start: A video of Ashbery giving a nimble reading of his poem "Interesting People of Newfoundland." "Doc Hanks, the sawbones, was a real good surgeon / when he wasn't completely drunk, which was most of the time. / When only half drunk he could perform decent cranial surgery."
Patti Smith 1969–1976, Photographs by Judy Linn
This new book of black-and-white photos provide a welcome jolt of stylized Downtown grit. Though most of the shots feature rock-and-roll elder stateswoman Patti Smith, Robert Maplethorpe occasionally steals the show with his feather necklaces, and his leather bikini.
Here Comes Another Lesson by Stephen O'Connor
This is a trailer for Stephen O'Connor's most recent story collection. Don't be alarmed by the uniformed man with a zebra's head.
Deborah Eisenberg reading at the University of Richmond
Ben Marcus has called MacArthur "genius" grant winner Deborah Eisenberg "one of the most important fiction writers now at work." Here she is reading "Some Other Better Otto," a story featuring a "very very irritable person at the best of times" who is in a "particularly horrible mood right now."

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