Top Reads From Arts & Letters Daily

Top 5 Reads from Arts & Letters Daily [View this email in your browser]( Since 1998, we’ve linked to more than 17,000 articles, book reviews, and essays. If you like what we’re doing, please consider [supporting us.]( [Poems Over Postage]( In 1921, William Faulkner went to work at the post office. He was comically ill-suited for the job. “The damndest postmaster the world has ever seen.” --------------------------------------------------------------- [Publishing Perils]( Does Ian Buruma's abrupt departure from The New York Review of Books mean that editors will be reluctant to take risks? Laura Kipnis is concerned. --------------------------------------------------------------- [The Making of 'Axis Sally']( Her Broadway career stalled, and she found herself broke in Berlin in 1940. An opportunity with Reich Radio beckoned. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Rise of Auto-Tune]( “So sa-a-a-ad that you’re leaving.” With those reviled but revolutionary words, Cher ushered in the era of Auto-Tune. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Read Them and Weep]( Books just keep getting longer. We conflate physical heft with artistic or intellectual merit. Thus our new golden age of the doorstop. Copyright © 2018 Arts and Letters Daily, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you signed up at Our mailing address is: Arts and Letters Daily 1255 Twenty-Third St, N.W.washington, DC 20037 [Add us to your address book](//ALDaily.us9.list-manage.com/vcard?u=8cbd654fc43afe6be9455ae3b&id=bcec0a1a30) [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences](