For the Village Voice, Jami Attenberg collects the 2011 writing soundtracks of authors, including Emily Gould, Ned Vizzini, and Justin Taylor. Ta-Nehisi Coates on reading Middlemarch. Alex Shakar, author of Luminarium, looks back at his 2001. Warren Ellis on science fiction comics. Big Other collects best-of-2011 lists from a number of literary types, including one Vol.1 editor. Laura Hudson on webcomics and pixelation. Largehearted Boy collects recommended books from authors who showed up at WORD’s holiday open house last weekend. […]
Indexing: Dispatches from Occupy, Alex Shakar, Lauren Beukes, The Metaphysical Club, grunge books, and much more
A roundup of things consumed by our editors. Tobias Carroll Mostly: this week’s involved reading coverage of Occupy Wall Street, whether up-t0-the-minute reporting on protests and arrests or the essays by Jeff Sharlet and Sarah Leonard in the latest issue of Bookforum. Sharlet’s omnipresence in my Twitter feed (and my already-high opinion of his writing) has also had the side effect of prompting me to pick up his essay collection Sweet Heaven When I Die. Between that and John Jeremiah Sullivan’s […]
Afternoon Bites: Bartleby, Tayari Jones, Alex Shakar, and more
“Luminarium is one of those books that is not shy about being about what it’s about, and it’s about plenty: technology, faith, families, war, media, illness, New York, second chances, the aftermath of tragedy, and how grief shapes or even becomes the survivor’s life.” At Bookforum, Justin Taylor on Alex Shakar’s Luminarium. At Library Journal, Molly McArdle looks at last week’s multi-author reading of “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” At Chapter 16, Susannah Felts reviews Tayari Jones’s novel Silver Sparrow. (Our review […]