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Zeljka Marosevic
The season of big books won’t be upon us until the Autumn, so this is the season of most anticipated books, a time where we move through the present but… Read more »
The season of big books won’t be upon us until the Autumn, so this is the season of most anticipated books, a time where we move through the present but… Read more »
In the long history of monstrous criminals writing books, there are plenty of obstacles to publication. Sometimes the law intercedes, sometimes the killer doesn’t manage to sell the book, and… Read more »
A key part of campaign law if you plan to run for president requires that you write a book, and it have a boring title. So it should come to no… Read more »
Title: First Love Author: Ivan Turgenev First published: 1860 Page count: 124 First line: The party had long ago broken up. This seems like an apt companion piece to Benjamin… Read more »
Title: Adolphe Author: Benjamin Constant First published: 1816 Page count: 126 First line: I was twenty-two and had just finished my studies at the University of Göttingen. Well, an opening sentence like that is either going… Read more »
Books by politicians usually have two things in common: 1) they have sublimely generic titles and 2) they don’t tend to be very substantive. This is sensible. After all, the… Read more »
Wednesday Martin’s Primates of Park Avenue, a high-concept memoir that approaches the wealthy wives of Manhattan’s Upper East Side anthropologically—sort of—has been hard to avoid over the last few weeks.… Read more »
Title: The Haunted Bookshop Author: Christopher Morley First published: 1919 Page count: 233 First line: If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be… Read more »
Dominos! They mean many things. A cliched metaphor. Drunk-munchied pizza. That one Van Morrison song. That one Jessie J song. That one mid-period movie from the Mickey Rourkeissance. The actual game… Read more »
The history of the world is usually told as one of scientific and technological progress, matched by the decline of social propriety and the weakening of morals. We have the… Read more »