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ReadEasy: a literary submarine cruising the depths of the internet. This week: writers recommend writers. That’s nice. Read on for top tips for #FridayReads et al from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Margaret Attwood, Stephen King, Elizabeth Gilbert, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Sedaris. (Pause to get a coffee. This is not part of the found object. :] ) NB the […]
Read MoreReadEasy is a new feature for 2015, diving for pearls in a sea of noise. John Adams's "dazzling portrait of virtuosic femininity" @nyphil this week: http://t.co/MxhTjO85CI (Photo: Chris Lee) pic.twitter.com/1hpW8FVS4r — House of SpeakEasy (@SpeakEasy_House) March 29, 2015 Stephen Kotkin and Slavoj Zizek on Stalin… On Tuesday night in the New York Public Library’s beautiful […]
Read MoreReadEasy is a new feature for 2015… because you’re worth it. I love Daily Savings Time. No matter what the weather, it makes me feel like spring is here!!! — Danielle Steel (@daniellesteel) March 10, 2015 Naomi Klein on climate change… In an edited excerpt from her new book This Changes Everything (Simon & Schuster, 2014) […]
Read MoreReadEasy is a new feature for 2015 — because life’s hard enough already, amIright? https://twitter.com/jenniferweiner/status/570321074988175360 Last Wednesday Tom McCarthy joined Dennis Lim, director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, to discuss his new novel, Satin Island (Knopf, 2015), and to screen two avant-garde classics he considers to be in conversation with it: Antony Balch’s 1963 Towers […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy does the hard work so you don’t have to. https://twitter.com/Joannechocolat/status/569571870774837248 Also, totally read our reviews of Oscar-winning movies Boyhood, Whiplash, and Ida. Wanna see tomorrow’s prize-winners today? Buy tickets for No Return, our next Seriously Entertaining show at City Winery NYC, on March 9. Guests include horror maestro R.L. Stine (who we interviewed here), author and […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is a weekly boat trip up the crazy river of the internet. How do YOU celebrate Friday the 13th? I always eat a live chihuahua. How about you? — R.L. Stine (@RL_Stine) February 13, 2015 …and if you enjoyed that: R.L. Stine joins our fabulous line-up for No Return on March 9 […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, in ReadEasy we search the book stacks of the internet so you don’t have to. https://twitter.com/Miranda_July/status/563792956675481600 Hey! Buy tickets for our next show, No Return, here. It’s on March 9 at City Winery NYC, and will feature the talents of author and journalist Ben Yagoda, playwright Sarah Ruhl, poet A.E. […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is us foraging through the underbrush of the World Wide Web so you don’t have to. https://twitter.com/elizmccracken/status/561535143622344705 Katy Steinmetz on the power of words… Perhaps you read transgender teen Leelah Alcorn‘s suicide note recently. A horrifying jolt to many of its readers, Leelah’s call for a “fix” for society […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is your regular scrapbook of peculiarisms, thoughts, and entertainment from the World Wide Web. I love Twitter the most during events like #sotu — it was so lonely before this, listening in the void. — Susan Orlean (@susanorlean) January 21, 2015 Björk‘s Vulnicura was released on iTunes two months […]
Read MoreA new feature for 2015, ReadEasy is your regular round-up of literary oddities, reviews, and entertainment from the World Wide Web. I'm at that bit* in my new book where I've no idea what's going on or what I'm doing. *from around page 30 to page 250 — Ian Rankin (@Beathhigh) January 13, 2015 Ahead […]
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