Joseph Heller’s Handrawn Chapter Map for Catch-22
In case you missed this, or if you haven’t yet read this mind-wringing masterpiece. Also, it’s Number 1 on our list of the All Time Funniest Novels. continued...
Colum McCann versus William Faulkner
Colum McCann’s excellent novel LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN reads like a sweltering stroll through Manhattan mid-summer: the screams, sirens, shit-stained concrete, star-gazing tourists. It’s all in there, plus a fictionalized account of Phillippe Petit’s continued...
Gatsby in The Daily Princetonian, 1925
Last summer we posted an image of an original ad for The Great Gatsby discovered in an old copy of The Daily Princetonian. Now that the new Gatsby film is nearly upon us, we thought continued...
Pic of Smallest Book in the World
Very cool article on BookRiot today about book art, featuring this little infinitely regressing gem: continued...
How to take your poetry reading to the next level
Walt, meet Sasha Fletcher. continued...
Chapter One: I Am Born
Things have been a little bit busy here at Team Literary Man. We are happy to report the most recent addition to The Literary Team: The Literary Baby. Our Literary Baby was born in NYC continued...
An Evening of Borges and Brilliant Dialogue
In a world where reality television and social media hold sway over the masses, it’s hard to imagine that more than 250 people would line-up in New York City on a Monday night to attend continued...
Lessons Learned From Fiction Vs Non-Fiction
Guns, Germs, and Steel: for years, it was the book everyone was talking about. Any intelligent conversation, ranging from politics to philosophy to American History, it all somehow came back to this book. But I resisted reading continued...
Amazing Dennis Stock Photography Exhibit
James Dean on his uncle’s farm in 1955. And my favorite. Currently on display in the Milk Studio, free and open to the public, at 450 West 15th Street. continued...
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre were married on this day in 1920
“You and I have been happy; we haven’t been happy just once, we’ve been happy a thousand times.” Love that F. Scott quote. Cheers to our favorite literary couple who were married today 93 years continued...