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BrickMAG

  1. It's here! Brick 89 is in the mail. Check out the contents & order your copy online now: bit.ly/Ke7CYJ
  2. Damn the torpedos!
  3. "When we found bricks, it was best. Bricks were most useful." From "In Childhood" by Sarah A. Chavez: goo.gl/DWyU6
  4. The trouble with translating the first line of #Camus's 'The Stranger' - nyr.kr/Jy0WVg
  5. Brick 89 is EPIC. goo.gl/1wtDL
  6. Some sad news about Carlos Fuentes - bbc.in/JEonvh
  7. Brick 89 is two weeks away. Here's what to look for: twitpic.com/9legvv
  8. Congrats to Arnaud Maggs, who won the Scotiabank Photography Prize: goo.gl/uVJZX (Look for one of his amazing images in #Brick89.)
  9. "It is one way of killing your father, to pretend he made no difference to you while watching his cadences like a hawk." -C. Tóibín #Brick89
  10. We've already taken Manhattan; now we take Berlin (and London, and Amsterdam, and Jerusalem . . . buy us there now! bit.ly/vxTHW6)
  11. "Never trust anybody who tells you why people come to trust them." - Katherine Boo #Brick89
  12. Anne Carson: "It's so much a part of Western culture that beauty's what makes love happen." #Brick89
  13. Tolstoy: "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." ...
  14. The ten best opening lines from fiction, from @guardian - bit.ly/ICyigX. Spoiler: nobody call anybody Ismael.
  15. More? Okay, how about new work from Marilynne Robinson, Lisa Moore, Priscila Uppal, Tim Lilburn, Rosemary Sullivan & Amitava Kumar? #Brick89
  16. Other upcoming enticements from our new issue, you ask? How about interviews with Wim Wenders, Anne Carson, Katherine Boo & Aman Sethi?
  17. Congrats to Patrick deWitt for winning the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour! Stay tuned for gut-busting new fiction from deWitt in Brick 89!
  18. Philip #Larkin disliked #poetry readings; naturally, here's an article about a Larkin poetry reading. Via @NewYorker nyr.kr/JJuJZX