A fantastic new essay from Catherine Lacey, thoughts on the legacies of Ellen Willis and Farley Mowat, a playlist from Michael J. Seidlinger, Jonathan Lethem and Patti Smith in conversation, and more for your weekend reading.
Blake Butler discusses a Javier Marías novel, literary criticism meets clickbait, a conversation with Mirah, St. Mark’s Bookshop has found a new space, and more.
This morning: insightful interviews with Javier Mariás and Jamie Iredell, Craig Finn supplies a playlist for Adam Wilson’s new collection, Isaac Fitzgerald goes deep into the world of Twitter fiction, and more.
A novel with the title Lives of the Monster Dogs isn’t something one soon forgets. I’m not sure when the first time I saw Kirsten Bakis’s novel on bookstore shelves was: I’m guessing it was a while ago, before I’d developed the compulsion to buy books that pique my interest at a moment’s notice. Something held me back, and I don’t quite know what that was: a fear that, for that I was intrigued by the novel’s premise, I’d be let […]
A look at the latest novel from Javier Marías, David Gordon Green talks Richard Pryor, a report from this year’s Lollapalooza, the state of art in Detroit, and more.