A Yellow Thread, or On Obsession
by Susannah Felts
And so I fell in love with a color… –Maggie Nelson
And so in these dark times at the close of a decade, I find myself enchanted by a color. Like anyone, I’ve had my share of obsessions, but this one is new. The universe baits me; everywhere I look there it is, dark and bright at once. Not a note but a chord.
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Leif Enger, writing from Chiwan Choi and Devin Kelly, and more.
In our morning reading: interviews with Meg Wolitzer and No Age, why writers’ colonies matter, and more.
In our afternoon reading: talking with John Boyne, new writing by Angel Nafis and Susannah Felts, and more.
In our weekend reading: talking punk rock, thoughts on the Southern Festival of Books, and much more.
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on Nicole Krauss’s new novel, stories by Susannah Felts and Robert Lopez, and more.
![Eclipse drawing from "Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy" by J. Dorman Steele, 1873 (Barnes and Co., NY). During this eclipse, Francis Baily noticed bright flashes of light from around the limb of the moon, later named 'Baily’s Beads’ in his honor. [www.sunearthday.nasa.gov]](http://www.www.vol1brooklyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/eclipse.jpg)
In our morning reading: essays by Susannah Felts and Roxane Gay, a playlist from Matthew Zapruder, and more.
In our afternoon reading: revisiting the fiction of JT LeRoy, Susannah Felts on Nashville, an interview with Alan Moore, and more.