In our morning reading: this year’s 5 Under 35 honorees are announced, an excerpt of D. Foy’s new novel, an interview with Yahdon Israel, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Mitchell S. Jackson on Portland, Sarah Gerard, Lucy K. Shaw Interviewed, Drew Nellins Smith, and More
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Mitchell S. Jackson, new nonfiction from Colin Dickey and Sarah Gerard, and more.
Morning Bites: Helen Phillips, D. Foy on Photography, Drew Nellins Smith, Jordan Okumura’s Latest, and More
In our morning reading: new nonfiction from Helen Phillips and D. Foy, thoughts on books by Drew Nellins Smith and Jordan Okumura, and more.
Weekend Bites: Francine Prose on “Frankenstein,” Drew Nellins Smith, Adapting “The Interestings,” Marissa Nadler on Mitski, and More
In our weekend reading: Francine Prose on Frankenstein, thoughts on the adaptation of “The Interesting,” an interview with Drew Nellins Smith, and more.
Documentaries Taught Me How to Confess
Ask me about my literary influences, and I’ll reflexively cite what I imagine is the usual collection of MFA-program darlings for an American man in his 30s: Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Lorrie Moore, Tobias Wolf, James Baldwin. Then a number of personal fetishes: Julie Hecht, Jane and Paul Bowles, Nicholson Baker, Amy Hempel, R.V. Cassill.