Supposedly Fun
The early skepticism for The End of the Tour may have been misguided. David Poland caught up with James Ponsoldt (the film’s director) and Donald Marguiles (its Pulitzer-winning screenwriter) to touch...
View ArticleLong Way Home
Joshua Mohr tackles time, addiction, and invisible dogs over at Lit Hub:I’d love to tell you what happened next with the Rattler, love to tell you some adventure I went on with him. But the truth is I...
View ArticleLetter to Everyone Else
Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to storm the literary world over at Rolling Stone and New York Magazine, and if those accolades weren’t enough, Toni Morrison has decreed him to “fill the intellectual void...
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.)In which Obama becomes the first sitting president to visit a federal prison.In which the debate over Common Core...
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.)In galactic news, now we know what Pluto looks like.Ever wonder where all the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge money...
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.)In a month of historic progressions, the US, Iran, and six other nations have reached a nuclear deal.Donald Trump...
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.)In the best news ever for someone yet to be determined, J.K. Rowling has announced an open casting call for her...
View ArticlePerfunctory Rebellion
Over at BOMB, A.L. Stein sits down with Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, to chat about metaphysics, attachments, and her relationship with the normative:“The normative/transgressive dichotomy is...
View ArticleBasin Street Blues
Jami Attenberg schools Travel and Leisure on the nuance of New Orleans, noting that “for a boisterous city, New Orleans can be awfully quiet when you need it to be.”Related Posts:Inaugural Lil Weezyana...
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.)For the second time in as many arrests, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has escaped from prison though an underground...
View ArticleAll of the Above
Over at the New Yorker, Alejandro Zambra has a piece of post-fiction prose from his collection Facsímil; it’s a parody on the entire notion of education. Read Zambra’s thoughts on the piece, and the...
View ArticleNot From This Dimension
Sarah Gerard interviews Ottesa Moshfegh for Hazlitt—among other concessions, Moshfegh admits that she’s “not from this dimension”:I’m like an alien in a human body. I come from a different place, a...
View ArticleAnother Order
In an essay reprinted over at Longreads, Alexander Chee looks back on finishing his MFA, moving back to New York, and the interiority of class that cater-waitering allowed him to peek into:In 1997, I...
View ArticleMis Documentos
Over at the New Yorker, James Wood chronicles Alejandro Zambra’s ascent in Latin American letters.Related Posts:The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Colin WinnetteMy Documents by Alejandro ZambraStories That...
View ArticleMotion Picture Soundtrack
As it turns out, Aleksandar Hemon jams out to D’angelo, Grimes, and Fela Kuti; for the rest of the tunes the writer put on his playlist for The Making of Zombie Wars, head over to Largehearted...
View ArticleAsk, Tell
Rumpus contributor Matthew Salesses posts his first essay as Insight Editor for The Offing: a rumination on racial awareness in 2015.Related Posts:Different Racisms II: On Jeremy Lin and Singular...
View ArticleUnbearable Whiteness
Elisa Gabbert asks the hard questions for Electric Literature:When the VIDA counts come out and multiple publications are shown to publish far more men than women (with the numbers for POC writers...
View ArticleUrban Escape
Of course Zadie Smith’s written a science fiction epic, set on September 11, 2001, chronicling the haphazard relationship between Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson, and Elizabeth Taylor. And of course...
View ArticleHere and Afar
Over at WBUR, Radio Open Source calls their program “an American conversation with a global attitude.” The podcast touches on everything from first-reads with James Wood, to Knausgaard on literary...
View ArticleNollywood in Vogue
Nearly a decade ago, Binvayanga Wainaina wrote an essay for Granta that changed his whole life. Now, he looks at the interior of African publishing, the landscape of literature on the continent, and...
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