April 2012
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"All of the Money, None of the Vomit:" A...
The author of Making Scenes, who was known as Adrienne Eisen at the time the book was published, is now known as Penelope Trunk. Penelope Trunk is a successful career coach and popular blogger. Adrienne Eisen is the author of a transgressive, disturbing and awesome novel. Emily Gould spoke to Penelope on the phone last week and they tried to reconcile these ideas.
E: What were the...
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The Not-Nice Novel
Helen DeWitt’s books aren’t apologetic, cute or kind. In an Extremely Sentimental and Curiously Twee literary marketplace, we need her work more than ever, argues Rich Beck
In the last fifteen years, the Precocious Child has become one of the American novel’s favorite protagonists. Whimsical, ingenious, and verbose, the Precocious Child knows simultaneously more and less than his...
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"A Glory Hole Would Have Ruined EVERYTHING." An...
Helen DeWitt is the author of EB pick Lighting Rods. She is also the author of The Last Samurai and the blog paperpools. Andy Selsberg is the author of You Are Good at Things: A Checklist and teaches college freshman composition. They had a fascinating recent email conversation about Lightning Rods and the ethical and physical practicability of some of the acts described therein. You should...
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“I read a survey that says college-educated women receive oral sex twice as often...”
– Making Scenes
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Trading Futures
The following is an excerpt from Making Scenes, our April pick.
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I HAVEN’T SEEN ROBERT for five days. He’s working on fixing things with his wife, but she’s not as smart as I am, and Robert needs smart. This is what he told me.
One reason Robert knows I’m smart is because I pick out better books for his three-year-old than she does. I get the books from my...
