In our morning reading: thoughts on Augusto Moterroso’s fiction, new music from BASIC, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Butler on Bernhard, She Shreds, Milk Music’s Latest, Kate Christensen, and More
Talking Jonathan Rosenbaum at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Blake Butler on Thomas Bernhard: “[S]ome of the blackest, most bare-teethed realist writing available.” Kate Christensen on the egg. She Shreds magazine: profiling the likes of Mary Timony and Marnie Stern. Excellent. “…the onslaught of ecological disaster has been experienced by most of us (outside of New Orleans and Florida) as a media phenomenon. Of course, that’s all changing.” Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon on Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow, and literary floods. […]