Red Pen
At Slate, Katy Waldman gives us a montage of authors editing their work, decades after it’s been published:Fun fact: Three out of seven authors independently reference epic poetry. “What’s the first...
View ArticleJoy to the World
Over at New York magazine, Adam Sternbergh’s written an intricate, affecting, and (honest to god) shocking elegy in awe of the emoji. If he comes to a single conclusion, it’s that every single one of...
View ArticleFinal Tour
Phil Klay’s just won the National Book Award, and he talks with Rumpus Interviews Editor Emeritus Rebecca Rubenstein about the repercussions. They also hit on the burden of multiple voices, “entry...
View ArticleTable Talk
At The Believer Logger, 14 writers sat down with Elisa Gabbert to talk reading, writing, reading without writing, writing in the midst of reading, willfully neglecting both, dutifully submitting to one...
View ArticleSmoking Gun
Etgar Keret has a new short story at the New Yorker, and an interview with Deborah Treisman afterwards. When she asks him about the piece’s political connotations, he gifts her the courtesy of a...
View ArticleChance Encounters
A newspaper columnist, a National Book Award winner, and some strangers get on a train… At the Times, Alexandra Alter writes about bumping into Phil Klay on the F train.Related Posts:Final TourThis...
View ArticleCloset Gamer
At Vice, Jagger Gravning gives us a profile of Alexey Pajitnov—the man who subverted his KGB-era career, completely changed the interface of digital entertainment, and created Tetris, eventually, when...
View ArticleBirds of Paradise
Over at Fader, Scott McClanahan tells us about the time a country music singer completely destroyed his marriage:I tried explaining it to her as best as I could. I told her Little Jimmy was one of West...
View ArticlePractical Sobs
At the New Yorker, Leslie Jamison interviews Charles D’ambrosio; they touch on narrative omniscience, the impossibility of achieving it, and just what it is that makes for a wonderful essay:Most of the...
View ArticleOpen Window
Jessica Gross riffs on Matteo Pericoli for the LARB, where she stands in support of the cosmopolitan. Her essay ruminates on place in art, foreign inspiration, and the mystique underlying location:The...
View ArticleWillful Ignorance
Over at the New Yorker, Alaksandar Hemon reads a slice of Nabokov; afterward, he chats about the foreignness of language, learning English from Pnin, and the book’s “complicated innocence” towards...
View ArticleSince We Last Spoke
Paul Ford touches on the delicate art of reconnecting over email, after years and years of silence, for Medium.Related Posts:Word of the Day: AtrabiliousThe Operating System for GriefJust Do the Hard...
View ArticleNew York, Collected
At the New Yorker, Valeria Luiselli gives us an essay in defense of monuments, libraries, park benches, daughters, Dickinson, and ‘simplicissimusses’:In that first New York of my early twenties, I...
View ArticleLost Daughter
The NYRB gives a profile of Elena Ferrante and her Naples novels, but the only thing more alluring than the author’s anonymity is the prose itself:There is a devastating exchange in The Story of a New...
View ArticleBlatant Hybrid
Over at The Believer, Ratik Asokan chats with Claudia Rankine about Citizen, art, and how we’re constantly updating our principles:We will always fail each other. That goes without saying. The question...
View ArticleOver 300 Characters
At Electric Literature, Elisa Gabbert’s finally collected what we never knew we needed: a compendium of the year’s most essential literary tweets.Related Posts:Got Plans Tonight?Poetic Lives Online:...
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Rules
Chukwu talked me into it. He talked me into shit. On the first page of the summer of my second decade, we sat in the front of his graying Corolla, lounging, tuned to the siren of an indefatigable...
View ArticleVoting With Champions
A roundtable of authors choose their favorite Vonnegut work for The Oyster Review. Unsurprisingly, Cat’s Cradle came out ahead with a pretty strong hand.Related Posts:The Disappointing...
View ArticleA Brief History of James
Brook Stephenson’s nabbed an interview with Marlon James—the two chat about Salman Rushdie, the black hobbit argument, and the difference between The Book You Want to Write and The Book You Think You...
View ArticleBirdwatching
Over at Grantland, Mark Harris looks back on the stories Hollywood told this year, why marquee films are gridlocking the industry, and what that sort of thing can do to your head:“I did not begin 2014...
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