It’s December, and the year has begun to reach its end. There’s a chill in the air; the streets of the city have grown more quiet, and jackets and scarves can be seen marching down the sidewalks. The year still has some notable books due to be released, however: everything from late works by acclaimed authors to stylistically bold experimental works by new and vital voices. Here’s a look at some of the books due out this month that have […]
Afternoon Bites: Anne Carson Fiction, Rahawa Haile Interviewed, Kai Ashante Wilson, Revisiting “Infinite Jest,” and More
In our afternoon reading: new Anne Carson fiction, Rahawa Haile on short fiction, memories of Harry Nilsson, and more.
The Zinophile: Where Proust, Casinos, and Maps of Thoughts Converge
A little less than two years ago, I went to the Center for Fiction to see Anne Carson read. The piece she read there was called The Albertine Workout, and it found Carson applying her considerable skill in literary scholarship to the works of Marcel Proust–specifically, the character Albertine in À la recherche du temps perdu. The piece consisted of a series of paragraphs, some very short, some not so much, along with a series of appendices. Besides its inquiry […]
Morning Bites: Scott Walker Revisited, New Edward Carey, Anne Carson, Run the Jewels Interviewed, and More
In this morning’s reading: thoughts on the music of Scott Walker; new writing from Anne Carson, Meredith Turits, and Erika Anderson; thoughts on Edward Carey’s new novel; and more.
Morning Bites: Anne Carson on Proust, Writers and Money, Yannick Murphy, Lana Del Rey Poems, and More
Thoughts on Anne Carson’s latest, new poems from Niina Pollari, novelists on World War I, Yannick Murphy interviewed Yannick Murphy, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Anne Carson’s Latest, Literary Hardy Boys, Jerry Stahl Interviewed, and More
“…fragments are, thematically and formally, the atomic unit of Carson’s work. They are also emotionally paradoxical entities—evidence of the inevitable breaking up of things, yet also evidence of those things, proof that once there was a story here.” Kathryn Schulz on Anne Carson’s Red Doc >. Maris Kreizman is profiled in Brooklyn Magazine. Follow the Blood, Sundog Lit’s anthology of work inspired by the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, features work from folks like xTx, Lindsay Hunter, Gabriel Blackwell, Amber Sparks, and Matthew Salesses. […]
Afternoon Bites: Chris Andrews on translation, Hot Lit Mags, James Sturm on Jack Kirby, and more
Afternoon links for February 7, ranging from Anne Carson’s “Nox” to James Sturm’s look at the history of Marvel Comics.
A year of favorites: Tobias’s Best Of Not-2011
Posted by Tobias Carroll This is the second of two lists of the books I read this year that I most enjoyed. Here, the focus is on older books that I first encountered this year; strangely, the focus here is much more on fiction than on my other list, and I’m a little uneasy that this list is far more dude-heavy than its counterpart. I wasn’t entirely sure where to fit Michael Kimball’s Us, an older novel revised for its […]