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READ: Ariel Levy: “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” | Zadie Smith talks with Ian McEwan in The Believer. | “I had gotten to walk with him to the end of the world. Life – so beautiful, painful and dazzling – does not get better than that. And death? I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.” | Patti Smith: “Lou had chosen the perfect day to set sail.” | “In a way my presence in the novel—as I feel it—is tied up with the book’s omniscient third-person narration, and with the fact that it’s peopled so overwhelmingly with men: because I couldn’t be anywhere, I had to be everywhere”: Eleanor Catton | “Tonight I had to kick a homeless man out of the carport at work…” | “I thought I’d made something “pure,” an imagined world that was not about my experience.” Rachel Kushner on her brilliant book The Flamethrowers. | “this time last year i was making a soundcloud, and a twitter, and a tumblr, all in the name lorde. i had no clue what was going to happen with the music. i hoped it’d be alright.” | A bittersweet love letter to the London suburbs in Vice.

LOOK: Cressida Campbell’s Sydney home. |Male novelist jokes. | Should I invest in a slow cooker for winter?

THINK: “You probably only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they’re unable to work on hard problems at all.” | What our minds do when we see someone’s body.

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