In our weekend reading: thoughts on books by Roberto Bolaño and Cory Doctorow, the rise of fanfiction, and more.
Sunday Stories will resume next weekend.
In our morning reading: revisiting the comic book “Miss Ruki,” chatting with The Hated, and more.
In our afternoon reading: an interview with A.S. Hamrah, pondering two dystopian novels, and more.
The guiding principle of Six Ridiculous Questions is that life is filled with ridiculousness. And questions. That only by giving in to these truths may we hope to slip the surly bonds of reality and attain the higher consciousness we all crave. (Eh, not really, but it sounded good there for a minute.) It’s just. Who knows? The ridiculousness and question bits, I guess. Why six? Assonance, baby, assonance.
In our morning reading: an interview with Jasmin ‘Ionani Hakes, Toni Morrison on Flannery O’Connor, and more.
Flare
by Madeline McFarland
Just after the New Year, I left early in the morning from Brooklyn for my next Botox appointment. It had snowed in the soft, heavy way the night before, and the sun had just risen, casting the street of brownstones in a light blue glow. The scene was still and mostly undisturbed—I traced only a few crunchy footsteps in the snow. The powder dusted the skeletal trees and the Christmas trees discarded on the uneven sidewalk between them.
In our weekend reading: an interview with Melissa Faliveno, thoughts on George Saunders’s new novel, and more.
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Naomi Kanakia, talking comics with Tessa Hulls, and more.