In our morning reading: interviews with Kelly Link and Colin Stetson, thoughts on Amina Cain’s new book, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Kelly Link on Writing, Esther Yi’s Novel, Christine Sneed on Publishing, and More
In our afternoon reading: talking writing with Kelly Link, revisiting Janet Malcolm, and more.
Morning Bites: Kelly Link Returns, Kate Folk Interviewed, Selah Saterstrom’s New Book, and More
In our morning reading: thoughts on Kelly Link’s new book, an interview with Kate Folk, and more.
Morning Bites: Dan Kois’s Novel, Kelly Link on Ursula K. Le Guin, Rebecca Rukeyser Interviewed, and More
In our morning reading: thoughts on Dan Kois’s new novel, Kelly Link on Ursula K. Le Guin, and more.
Morning Bites: Remembering Charles Simic, Story Prize Finalists, Kelly Link Interviewed, and More
In our morning reading: a remembrance of Charles Simic, an interview with Kelly Link, and more.
Morning Bites: Richard Butner Interviewed, Sara Lippmann’s Stories, Shola von Reinhold on Literary History, and More
In our morning reading: interviews with Richard Butner and Shola von Reinhold, thoughts on Sara Lippmann’s latest book, and more.
Morning Bites: Kelly Link on Robertson Davies, Mark de Silva, Angel Bat Dawid’s Live Album, Lynn Steger Strong on 2020, and More
In our morning reading: Kelly Link on Robertson Davies, an excerpt from Mark de Silva’s new book, and more.
The Surreal Modernity of Amber Sparks: A Review of “And I Do Not Forgive You”
Say you’re a fiction writer and you’d like to allude to the communications technologies of the present moment. There are plenty of ways you can do this, from coming up with your own lightly-altered versions of real-world services to embracing an accurate picture of your smartphone’s suite of apps circa the moment you’re putting words on paper. The difficulty with the latter, though, is that the ups and downs of the tech world don’t always match up with the time it takes to get a book published; the way that Vine went from buzzed-about to deprecated in a relatively short period of time illustrates just how difficult of a juggling act this can be.