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In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here:
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neglectedbooks.com/?...
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here:
neglectedbooks.com/?...
neglectedbooks.com/?...
Hearing reports NZ bookstores have sold out of Krasznahorkai. The day has finally come
October 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Hearing reports NZ bookstores have sold out of Krasznahorkai. The day has finally come
Some films are made for the dusty Friday afternoon classroom
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Some films are made for the dusty Friday afternoon classroom
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considering the headlines like 1961 Toshiro Mifune 📽️
July 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
considering the headlines like 1961 Toshiro Mifune 📽️
Would like to be this guy
August 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Would like to be this guy
Picked up this one in a second hand bookstore last week and it has been an unexpected treat
August 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Picked up this one in a second hand bookstore last week and it has been an unexpected treat
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happy birthday John Ashbery 🎈
July 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
happy birthday John Ashbery 🎈
Rewriting Wolff’s Bullet in the Brain except it’s a cyclist getting hit by a car
July 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Rewriting Wolff’s Bullet in the Brain except it’s a cyclist getting hit by a car
Unexpectedly deep poem above the urinal
July 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Unexpectedly deep poem above the urinal
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Not me getting emotional this morning at Tobias Wolff’s Introduction to The Best American Short Stories 1994.
June 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Not me getting emotional this morning at Tobias Wolff’s Introduction to The Best American Short Stories 1994.
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“For me, it wouldn’t make sense to write a story of two Māori cousins in a beat-up car roaming through this country without talking about all these different monuments to the colonial takeover of this land.” — Michelle Rahurahu on her Ockham-winning novel ‘Poorhara’.
Michelle Rahurahu: The road to Poorhara | E-Tangata
“For me, it wouldn’t make sense to write a story of two Māori cousins in a beat-up car roaming through this country without talking about all these different monuments to the colonial takeover of this...
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May 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“For me, it wouldn’t make sense to write a story of two Māori cousins in a beat-up car roaming through this country without talking about all these different monuments to the colonial takeover of this land.” — Michelle Rahurahu on her Ockham-winning novel ‘Poorhara’.
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So hilarious: Richard Yates sits down to watch the Seinfeld episode ("The Jacket") featuring a character based on him (Larry David had once dated his daughter, Monica). From the Bailey bio...
May 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
So hilarious: Richard Yates sits down to watch the Seinfeld episode ("The Jacket") featuring a character based on him (Larry David had once dated his daughter, Monica). From the Bailey bio...
Another day humbled by the big apple. Failed my drivers license after sixteen years on a NZ full. Classic
May 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Another day humbled by the big apple. Failed my drivers license after sixteen years on a NZ full. Classic
Better late than never
March 19, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Better late than never
Shameful you can’t save drafts on here
March 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Shameful you can’t save drafts on here
Certified banger www.theparisreview.org/fiction/1527...
Stories I Used to Write by David Means
I used to write stories that had lakes, that had deep blue waters shelled by the sky; water mucky and full of disease; I wrote stories where people used to break down and cry unbidden, unprovoked, jus...
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February 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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About to start a book where the writer, in one blurb, is compared to Joan Didion, Alice Munro, Alice McDermott and Edna O’Brien. Classic
February 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
About to start a book where the writer, in one blurb, is compared to Joan Didion, Alice Munro, Alice McDermott and Edna O’Brien. Classic
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There's always a moment when this one-line poem by Brian Turner seems entirely apposite.
NEW ZEALANDERS, A DEFINITION
Born here, buggered it up.
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NEW ZEALANDERS, A DEFINITION
Born here, buggered it up.
.
November 29, 2023 at 11:52 PM
There's always a moment when this one-line poem by Brian Turner seems entirely apposite.
NEW ZEALANDERS, A DEFINITION
Born here, buggered it up.
.
NEW ZEALANDERS, A DEFINITION
Born here, buggered it up.
.
Found poor Bill Styron shoved in the closet
February 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Found poor Bill Styron shoved in the closet
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