Maud Newton

Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times

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Writer, critic, editor, neurotic. Recently: NYT Mag, Bookforum, the New Republic, NPR, Awl, Tin House.

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Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
@bradstreet26 thank you! A delight to meet you.
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@VictoriaMia skirts that cover the knee can look gorgeous! I have some I love, but, being short, I'm happy when shorter skirts are the style
Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
"You have written a critical essay on me that is as spontaneous & friendly as a letter." Italo Calvino to Gore Vidal: nyr.kr/10WmyEr

The Letters of Italo Calvino, Day V

newyorker.com — "Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985," translated by Martin McLaughlin, which will be published on May 20th (read our first three installments here, here, here, and here.). In this final installment of the letters, from when the writer was in his fifties, Calvino spars with, compliments, and, in one case, attacks the critical sensibilities of three of his eminent literary contemporaries: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gore Vidal, and Claudio Magris.
Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
Hilary Mantel's ideal reading day: "no time limit, no e-mails stacking up, dinner appearing on a floating tablecloth" nyti.ms/10WbTK7

Hilary Mantel - By the Book - NYTimes.com

nytimes.com — The author of "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" prefers books with action: "I don't like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ladies with fine sensibilities." What's the best book you read in the last year? The term "best" would have to stretch.
Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
@melissawiley Yes! It's wonderful.
Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
"The 'Best American' collections are the literary equivalent of K-tel records." @GregoryCowles on old anthologies: nyti.ms/19EX3Hb

Anthologies That (Mostly) Stand the Test of Time

artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com — Fiction anthologies don't always stand the test of time. There is, surrounding prize anthologies especially, an inevitable whiff of Ozymandias - these were the best writers of their day, the editors proclaimed, yet who today has heard of most of them?
Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
Yes. // MT @Steffikeith I don't understand how the Village Voice can lay off @mikeymusto. His name is practically synonymous with the paper
Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
(Apparently the Torah requires that skirts fall 4 inches below the lowest part of the knee.)
Maud Newton Contributor, New York Times Magazine, New York Times @maudnewton
My latest @NYTmag columnlet: a sign in my hood denouncing "immense pritzus" of "short" skirts. nyti.ms/12h9MwM pic.twitter.com/7ZWFuzXF2M

What’s Wrong With You, Washington?

nytimes.com — Bret Michaels's R.V. theory; Mario Batali's spring martini.

maudnewton: My latest @NYTmag columnlet: ...

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