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They arrived in Paris on the eve of my birthday and their gift to me was an ice cream maker. A state-of-the-art ice cream machine. I told them I would churn now for many years.
↩︎ The Paris Review
Human beings have already accomplished miraculous feats in the technology of retrieval of the singular past. À la recherche du temps perdu is notable among them.
↩︎ Justin E.H. Smith's Hinternet
Prior to the US Open starting this week, Racquet Magazine hosted a roundtable discussion about pressure, profits, and mental health with Mardy Fish (who's got a new doc coming to Netflix that we're very interested to see), Billie Jean King, Nick Kyrgios, and Naomi Osaka. It's short and interesting for tennis heads, if a little too abbreviated on the big issues.
We recently co-sponsored a sweepstakes to give away a skateboard deck inspired by Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles, the bestselling new book by TMN's co-founder Rosecrans Baldwin. ("A genre-bending work of reportage and memoir that’s been lauded as one of the best and most inventive books of the summer," GQ recently said.)
To prove that people actually do win internet contests, we reached out to the winner, Paul, with a few questions, and he was kind enough to send us a photo.
Paul, congratulations! First question: do you skate? Or, perhaps once upon a time you skated? Skated. Serving Uncle Sam left me unable to skateboard any longer. He clearly got the better end of the deal.
Wow, sorry to hear that. But it looks like the next generation might be raring to go. My son’s got scooters down. Bicycle next. Then he gets to skateboard. And he is dying to try. His mother not so much. Your board rests next to his bed against the wall. The stuffed puffin and octopus protect it.
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Out of curiosity, what are you reading these days, or what kind of stuff do you read generally? When I’m not reading about a bizarre city that’s it’s own country [lol—ed.], anything Chris Offutt puts out is preordered at this point. Same for Haruki Murakami. Radical Mycology is on the nightstand and will be there for probably a year at my pace. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry is coming. I read one poem a day. Typically from an Irish or a South American poet. Koans as longs as they’re annotated.
Fabulous. Congratulations again to Paul, and big thanks to everyone who entered!
“He’s just so good if you’ve seen him with sponsors, with C.E.O.s. He just has the ability to make you feel like he really cares what you are saying and he has time for you.”
↩︎ The New York Times Magazine
by The Tournament of Books Staff
This week, we discuss the conclusion of Rivka Galchen’s Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch—and it’s time for you to vote on which of our August novels advances to our end-of-summer finale!
“I asked my dad, ‘What do you do for a living? What do you do? What do you actually do?’ He told me, ‘I ride and look at peaches.’”
↩︎ The Bitter Southerner