1. An excerpt from Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
From HMH Literature, an excerpt from Numero Zero, the new book by Umberto Eco: Set in 1992 and foreshadowing the mysteries and follies of the following twenty years, Numero Zero is a scintillating take on our times from the best-selling author of The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum.
From Aeon: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable. But it really is weirder than pretty much every other language. Why?
3. Eli Horowitz wants to teach you how to read
From Buzzfeed: McSweeney’s was one of the most significant indie publishing houses of the last 20 years — and Eli Horowitz was a central force behind it. Armed with an app-based novel that aspires to be the most bonkers book ever written, can he change that world again?
4. An Open Letter to Wikipedia by Philip Roth
From The New Yorker in 2012: Dear Wikipedia,
I am Philip Roth. I had reason recently to read for the first time the Wikipedia entry discussing my novel “The Human Stain.” The entry contains a serious misstatement that I would like to ask to have removed. This item entered Wikipedia not from the world of truthfulness but from the babble of literary gossip—there is no truth in it at all.
5. When People – and Characters – Surprise You
From The Atlantic: Mary Gaitskill, author of The Mare, explains how a single moment in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina reveals its characters’ hidden selves.
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- Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
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- The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language by John H McWhorter
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- The Human Stain by Philip Roth
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- Anna Karenina by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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