In our Friday morning reading: profiles of Hanya Yanagihara and Caryl Phillips, an interview with Matthew Specktor, a look at what makes a Charles D’Ambrosio sentence tick, and much more.
Notes on M.F.K. Fisher, discussing Sleater-Kinney’s legacy and reunion, writers on their lowbrow influences, an interview with Mary Lattimore, on tour with Joanna Gruesome, and more.
Colin Dickey discusses Virginia Woolf; interviews with Mary Timony, Barbara Browning, and Sarah Lipstate; smart writers debate Amazon; Teju Cole-inspired clothing; and more.
Douglas Wolk revisits his book on James Brown, a roundtable discussion of Lena Dunham’s book, Linda Thompson on the latest from Leonard Cohen, Colin Dickey has a Star Trek theory, and more.
Among the NYC cultural spaces we’re most excited to see open is Gowanus’s Morbid Anatomy Museum. (That the excellent writer Colin Dickey is one of the people involved with it doesn’t hurt.) The museum will be holding an opening celebration tomorrow, along with its first exhibit, The Art of Mourning; details can be found here.
This afternoon: Teju Cole talks with the Times, one iconic DC punk figure shows up in another’s video, Colin Dickey talks haunted houses, Brandon Hobson’s new book is reviewed, and more.
K Records makes with the postpunk reissues, Colin Dickey reports from the Arctic Circle, Kathryn Schulz on Stephen King’s latest (and horror fiction in general), and more.
In our Monday morning reading: Toby Barlow on George Plimpton, thoughts on small books, a review of the new Oblivians album, some excellent band t-shirts, tributes to the work of Iain M. Banks, and more.