In our Tuesday morning reading: news of the PEN/Faulkner finalists; interviews with Anna Lyndsey, Brandon Stosuy, and Jeremy Robert Johnson; Kevin Nguyen on Spacebomb Records; and more.
In our morning reading: critics on the year in books, celebrating Paul Bowles’s birthday, revisiting two of Kate Zambreno’s books, the year’s best metal, and more.
This afternoon: new writing from Wells Tower and Shelly Oria, Brandon Stosuy talks Mineral, notes on Italian horror film soundtracks, an interview with William Gibson, and more.
Thoughts on the new Jawbreaker reissue, writing from Molly Rose Quinn, Lynn Lurie, and Susannah Felts, thoughts on hybrid works using text and images, and more.
Interviews with Emma Straub and Glenn O’Brien, a review of Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter, Brandon Stosuy on the latest from Lower, and more.
When I was a teenager, I read the longest, most complex books I could find. I spent months trying to decode Finnegans Wake, slogging through In Search of Lost Time, finding Tristram Shandy hysterical, looking up all the references in Gravity’s Rainbow, and marking the margins of my copy of The Waves with so many notes that it became its own kind of illuminated text. In 1995, I remember going to the bookstore the second it opened on the day […]
A weekly appreciation for the art of the review.
A new book chronicles the fading “ghost signs” of New York City. Jeffrey Eugenides is Michael Silverblatt’s latest guest on Bookworm. Kio Stark thinks you to learn anything without going back to school. Salon does a roundup of great indie bookstores. Mayor Michael Blooberg sucks more and more every day. At Pitchfork, Brandon Stosuy talks to Ian MacKaye about the Fugazi live show archive. Quintron and Miss Pussycat are back. Daniel Blumberg from Yuck has some artwork he’d like to […]