“Describing Joshua Cohen’s wonderful and elliptical novel A Heaven of Others is a bit like attempting to rehash an acid trip—no analysis can quite do justice to the feel of the experience.” – Adam Wilson reviews Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others at Bookforum. Somewhere in the world there is a collaboration between Blur and poet Michael Horovitz. Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is officially a thing on HBO. The new Atlas Sound album Parallax is streaming at the New York Times. It is very much […]
Morning Bites: Irène Némirovsky, Adam Wilson in Hudson, Fante playlist, and more
The Boston Globe takes a look at An Emergency in Slow Motion, the book by author William Todd Schultz. The book look at Diane Arbus and “the motives behind her lifelong obsession with freaks and misfits, her ambitions, and the triggers that may have led to her suicide.” We heard it’s the feel good hit for this holiday weekend. Emily St. John Mandel on the life and works of Irène Némirovsky. Chloe Caldwell follows Adam Wilson around Hudson, New York, […]
Morning Bites: Patti Smith’s movie, crazy leaders, Steel City noir, Marc Maron interviewed, and more
today’s news includes Patti Smith’s book as a movie, crazy people as leaders, old skyscrapers, and much more.
Tonight: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Story Series (Benjamin Hale, Adam Wilson, Julia Jackson)
Tonight we present the first of our new monthly Story Series to take place at the fantastic Brooklyn Winery. We’re excited to be working with our pals from Fortnight Journal to bring you this month’s edition, which we’ve gotta say, is pretty fricken sweet. Benjamin Hale: Author, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore. (Read our interview with Benjamin) Adam Wilson (Author of the forthcoming novel, “Flatscreen”) Julia Jackson: Author, Electric Literature contributor (Read Julia’s fiction here) More info and RSVP available […]
Went to: Jessica Francis Kane, Mark Slouka, and Benjamin Percy; Graywolf Press Night at Bookcourt
Posted by Tobias Carroll I arrived at Bookcourt on a brisk Tuesday night to find their beskylighted space abounding with red wine and sea salt-crusted brownies. The occasion was the second installment of said bookstore’s small press reading series, here spotlighting the work of the Minneapolis-based publisher Graywolf Press. It was introduced by Emma Straub and Adam Wilson, the latter of whom read a essay citing the role of independent presses in spotlighting work under-appreciated in its day. The phrase […]
Six Degrees of Paris Review
Adam Wilson reads his “Love Letter to Elvis Costello” at our Greatest 3-Minute Record Review event then Adam Wilson publishes said letter over at The Paris Review blog. Coincidence? Absolutely not. But we like to think so.
I Finished Reading Meridian #25
Good stuff from the University of Virginia’s semi-annual lit journal, Meridian. I was initially enticed by the inclusion of an Adam Wilson story. His stuff reminds me of a Todd Solondz film, if Sam Lipsyte was writing the screenplay. The interview with Michael Martone was really enjoyable also: “I’ll be the one that looks like David Byrne, but younger and less emaciated, ” he says. This too turns out to be something between a fiction and a nonfiction –when […]
Will Oldham in a Basement
Bonnie “Prince” Billy played the Monster Island basement the other night. I wasn’t there, but Adam Wilson was. I asked him what he thought. Here is what he told me: