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The Blank on Blank organization has created an animated video starring radio personality and writer Garrison Keillor. The video embedded above features a recording made during a 92Y event where he sat for a conversation with The Paris Review editor George Plimpton.
During this discussion, Keillor shared his thoughts on humor and storytelling. In the past, the producers behind this YouTube channel have made pieces with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings memoirist Maya Angelou, Fahrenheit 451 novelist Ray Bradbury, and Where the Wild Things Are creator Maurice Sendak.
Timothy Seldes has died. He was 88 years old.
The New York Times reports that Seldes devoted four decades to a career as a literary agent. He represented several high-profile authors including Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, and The Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton.
Here’s more from The Washington Post: “In 1972, he bought one of New York’s most prestigious literary agencies, Russell & Volkening, which was founded in 1940 by Diarmuid Russell and Henry Volkening. Over the next 40 years, Mr. Seldes kept the agency’s original name, even though he was its principal agent and sole owner. He specialized in high-end fiction and literary nonfiction, acquiring many books that became bestsellers and canonical works of literature.” (via The Hollywood Reporter)
You can win a free bike from The Paris Review by writing a short short story about a devilish illustration (embedded above). However, you must write your story in the style of one of five great writers.
While writing about the contest, editor Lorin Stein recalled how Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton used to ride his own bicycle around the city–a literary tradition you can continue with your new bicycle.
Check it out: “in celebration of the Tour de France—and thanks to the generosity of Hudson Urban Bikes—we, along with Velojoy, are giving away one of Hudson Urban Bikes’ Beater Bicycles Roadster. This classic city bike comes in a men’s and a women’s model, both of which may be seen in the diabolical and rather enigmatic illustration below. To win the HUB Beater, tell us what you see in this picture: in three hundred words or fewer; in the style of (choose one!) Elizabeth Bishop, Ray Bradbury, Joan Didion, Ernest Hemingway, or P. G. Wodehouse.”
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