Start your day off with a Karen Russell interviewed, thoughts on Lorrie Moore’s new collection, an in-depth look at the Coen Brothers’ films, Sarah Rose Etter on the spine, and more.
This afternoon: a look at Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial, Geeta Dayal on Robert Ashley, Helen Oyeyemi talked with NPR, fiction inspired by a Juliet Escoria short story, and more.
This morning: Victor LaValle on an underrated Shirley Jackson novel, interviews with Laura van den Berg and Teju Cole, Bret Easton Ellis scripts a Dum Dum Girls video, a look at the Wes Anderson-Stefan Zweig connection, and more.
“Because Miss Jackson wrote so frequently about ghosts and witches and magic, it was said that she used a broomstick for a pen. But the fact was that she used a typewriter–and then only after she had completed her household chores.” – Shirley Jackson’s New York Times obituary.