In our afternoon reading: an interview with Brian Evenson, new nonfiction from Mat Johnson and Ezra Glinter, and much more.
Afternoon Bites: Kamasi Washington, Carl Wilson on Brian Wilson, Mat Johnson Interviewed, Harry Dean Stanton Festival, and More
In our afternoon reading: checking in with Kamasi Washington and Mat Johnson, Carl Wilson on the works of Brian Wilson, a festival dedicated to Harry Dean Stanton, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Kelly Link on Angela Carter, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mat Johnson Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: Kelly Link on Angela Carter, Sarah McCarry on Stacy Wakefield, interviews with Neil Gaiman and Mat Johnson, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Mat Johnson, Colin Winnette Interviewed, Inside Featherproof Books, Agnes Martin, and More
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Mat Johnson and Colin Winnette, a look at the life and art of Agnes Martin, checking in with featherproof books, and more.
Morning Bites: Peter Matthiessen, Victor LaValle Interviewed Mat Johnson, Nation of Ulysses Covers, Large Novels, and More
In our morning reading: Mat Johnson interviewed by Victor LaValle, Boris Kachka on large novels, a pair of Nation of Ulysses covers, and much more.
Morning Bites: Mat Johnson, Noah Cicero and xTx, BAM’s New Director, Cecil Taylor Reissues, and More
In our morning reading: new nonfiction from Matt Johnson, the Man Booker International Prize is announced, BAM gets a new director, xTx and Noah Cicero in conversation, and more.
Afternoon Bites: “About Cherry” In NYC, Vintage Contemporaries, Mat Johnson Interviews Victor LaValle, and More
Junot Díaz is profiled by Michele Filgate for Capital New York, and in the process says some deeply insightful things about perceptions of genre. Everything you’ve wanted to know about Vintage Contemporaries… Former roommates Mat Johnson and Victor LaValle chatted for Bookforum. A musical adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is in the works. Stephen Elliott’s film About Cherry opens in New York on September 21st. Dan Ruccia on the reissue of Don Cherry’s Organic Music Society. (So that we’re clear, that’s […]
Indexing: Mat Johnson, Auden, Baraka, and Lyndon Johnson?
Tobias Carroll A recommendation from Jessica at Greenlight Bookstore led me to pick up Mat Johnson’s Pym, which I read earlier this week. On the surface, the description reads like an archetypal adventure story: an academic leading an expedition to Antarctica in search of a lost civilization. And that description does, in fact, serve to describe this novel. Except that Johnson’s working on a number of levels: this is at once an adventure story, an academic comedy, a satire of […]