Carousel #18

The Millions covers a long list of upcoming books in 2014. Like I don’t have enough in my to-read pile already.
This dialect quiz got passed around the internet quite a bit recently. I took it and was surprised how easily it picked out the Ft. Lauderdale/Miami/Pembroke Pines areas for me. Extremely exact. I guess using the term “sunshower” gave me away. I made my mom take it and she got areas in New York. Even she couldn’t trick it.
Via Buzzfeed, Roxane Gay discusses how unlikable female characters are less socially accepted and more unfairly dismissed than unlikable male characters. I could not agree more with this.
At Tin House, here is an interview with Laura van den Berg, whose book of short stories I am now making my way through. If you can find it, you should read “Opa-Locka.” Or maybe just buy her book, yes?
Here’s some recommended reading from Judy Blume and Lena Dunham.
And recommended reading from me: Every Year Is Comeback Year / The #11 Ranked Tennis Player in the World / Chain.