FICTION
All'inizio di febbraio uscirà il nuovo romanzo di Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow (Cape). Racconta la storia di Keith Nearing, un giovane che passa l'estate del 1970 in un castello italiano con un gruppo di amici, uomini e donne, nel periodo in cui le donne stavano cominciando a sperimentare la libertà sessuale. g/o.

NONFICTION
Sam Stephenson, The Jazz Loft Project (Knopf). In 1957, Smith, 38, abandoned his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, and moved to a fourth-floor loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, near West 28th Street, in the heart of what was then Manhattan’s commercial flower market. Over the next eight years, pepped up on amphetamines, he shot over 1,000 rolls of film, many of them from his window, capturing a world in one block. In a letter to his friend Ansel Adams, he described Sixth Avenue as “an ever-changing pandemonium of delicate details and habitual rhythms.” nymag.

Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Viking). Costretta a sposarsi per poter introdurre negli USA l'uomo che ama, Gilbert riflette sul matrimonio. salon.

DA LEGGERE
La prima di una serie di considerazioni di Tony Judt sulla sua vita da malato di sclerosi laterale amiotrofica. Bella e comovente. nybr. E il profilo di Tony Judt. chronicle.

Cut This Story! One reason seekers of news are abandoning print newspapers for the Internet has nothing directly to do with technology. It’s that newspaper articles are too long. On the Internet, news articles get to the point. Newspaper writing, by contrast, is encrusted with conventions that don’t add to your understanding of the news. theatlantic. Sono d'accordissimo.

Unhappy Meals, un bell'articolo sulle mense scolastiche che offrono cibi poco nutrienti e troppo calorici. washingtonmonthly.