1. theparisreview: In 1955, The Paris Review paid a struggling Jack Kerouac fifty dollars for an excerpt from a then unpublished manuscript. The excerpt appeared as a short story titled “The Mexican Girl” and, after much acclaim, was picked up a year later by Martha Foley’s The Best American Short Stories. Due in large part to the success of “The Mexican Girl,” On the Road was soon accepted by Viking Press; the full novel was published in 1957.The issue containing Kerouac’s excerpt—The Paris Review No. 11 (Winter 1955)—has long since sold out, but we’re happy to announce that it’s now available in digital form via the Paris Review app.To find out how you can receive free digital access to this issue, click here.

    theparisreview:

    In 1955, The Paris Review paid a struggling Jack Kerouac fifty dollars for an excerpt from a then unpublished manuscript. The excerpt appeared as a short story titled “The Mexican Girl” and, after much acclaim, was picked up a year later by Martha Foley’s The Best American Short Stories. Due in large part to the success of “The Mexican Girl,” On the Road was soon accepted by Viking Press; the full novel was published in 1957.

    The issue containing Kerouac’s excerpt—The Paris Review No. 11 (Winter 1955)—has long since sold out, but we’re happy to announce that it’s now available in digital form via the Paris Review app.

    To find out how you can receive free digital access to this issue, click here.

  2. In The Sinking of the Bounty, Matthew Shaer reconstructs the final voyage of a legendary ship, and uncovers a riveting story of heroism and hubris in the eye of a hurricane. Read an excerpt. 

    In The Sinking of the Bounty, Matthew Shaer reconstructs the final voyage of a legendary ship, and uncovers a riveting story of heroism and hubris in the eye of a hurricane.

    Read an excerpt. 

  3. explore-blog:

    Gay Talese’s outline for the 1966 classic Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, one of the best long-form magazine pieces ever penned, written on a shirt board. 

    (↬ The Paris Review)

    Still not sure what a shirt board is…

  4. thenewinquiry: We wanted to be tough and unsentimental, but we couldn’t let go even of the word, we couldn’t stop clutching at it, the corners of the L and the V and the spikes of the E cutting into our palms, blood pooling at the centre of the O. Either it (love) was the blandishments of culture seducing us, Robert Pattinson seducing us, Katy Perry seducing us, away from our true purpose of transformation, or it (love) was the true kernel of the world that we would eventually arrive at, once we’d broken it apart. Either it (love) was a prefiguration or a red herring, either it was a Trojan horse against us or it was us inside the Trojan horse. For a while, dizzy, I stopped saying “love” and would only use the gerund, loving, loving, thinking by this replacement to smuggle in permanence under the counterfeit of constant activity. I envied K his talent for intimacy. -Hannah Black, “K in Love” Valentine’s Day = a good day to read TNI Vol. 13: <3 

    thenewinquiry:

    We wanted to be tough and unsentimental, but we couldn’t let go even of the word, we couldn’t stop clutching at it, the corners of the L and the V and the spikes of the E cutting into our palms, blood pooling at the centre of the O. Either it (love) was the blandishments of culture seducing us, Robert Pattinson seducing us, Katy Perry seducing us, away from our true purpose of transformation, or it (love) was the true kernel of the world that we would eventually arrive at, once we’d broken it apart. Either it (love) was a prefiguration or a red herring, either it was a Trojan horse against us or it was us inside the Trojan horse. For a while, dizzy, I stopped saying “love” and would only use the gerund, loving, loving, thinking by this replacement to smuggle in permanence under the counterfeit of constant activity. I envied K his talent for intimacy.

    -Hannah Black, “K in Love”

    Valentine’s Day = a good day to read TNI Vol. 13: <3 

  5. Meet The Brooklynite, a rare Art Deco magazine that (not so subtly) patterned itself on The New Yorker. 

    Meet The Brooklynite, a rare Art Deco magazine that (not so subtly) patterned itself on The New Yorker. 

  6. The cover for Tao Lin&#8217;s new book is an animated GIF. Seriously.

    The cover for Tao Lin’s new book is an animated GIF. Seriously.

  7. newyorker: This week’s Anniversary-issue cover, “Brooklyn’s Eustace,” is by Simon Greiner, a thirty-one-year-old reader from Sydney, Australia, who submitted it through our 2013 Eustace Tilley Contest. Here, Greiner talks about the inspiration for his cover, plus see a slideshow of all of the 2013 Eustace Tilley finalists: http://nyr.kr/VyjBCX B.R.O.O.K.L.Y.N.

    newyorker:

    This week’s Anniversary-issue cover, “Brooklyn’s Eustace,” is by Simon Greiner, a thirty-one-year-old reader from Sydney, Australia, who submitted it through our 2013 Eustace Tilley Contest. Here, Greiner talks about the inspiration for his cover, plus see a slideshow of all of the 2013 Eustace Tilley finalists: http://nyr.kr/VyjBCX

    B.R.O.O.K.L.Y.N.

  8. theparisreview: One imagines that MI5 was busy during World War II. But not too busy, it would seem, to take the time to investigate Agatha Christie. Why? This sounds familiar&#8230;

    theparisreview:

    One imagines that MI5 was busy during World War II. But not too busy, it would seem, to take the time to investigate Agatha Christie. Why?

    This sounds familiar…

  9. Novelist. Journalist. Brooklynite.  Happy 90th, Norman. 

    Novelist. Journalist. Brooklynite. 

    Happy 90th, Norman. 

  10. explore-blog: Hunter S. Thompson’s daily routine, a fine addition to other famous writers’ routines. (↬ Reddit)

    explore-blog:

    Hunter S. Thompson’s daily routine, a fine addition to other famous writers’ routines.

    (↬ Reddit)