I’ve long followed the work of both Joe Meno and Dan Sinker — the former via his numerous books, the latter via his work as a writer and editor. So when an email showed up in my inbox with the news that Meno and Sinker were collaborating on a new project, Question Mark, Ohio, I was intrigued. The project, a serialized narrative about an Ohio town where objects are mysteriously disappearing, kicks off today on Instagram, with further updates taking place beginning on April 25 on the town’s website. I spoke with Meno and Sinker about the project’s genesis, their collaboration, and the art of the narrative.
Morning Bites: Lincoln Michel Interviewed, John Darnielle on Books, Tamsyn Muir on Trilogies, and More
In our morning reading: interviews with Lincoln Michel and Tamsyn Muir, the world of cartoon influencers, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Esmé Weijun Wang, Bluestockings Returns, Matsuda Aoko, Lauren Camp Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Esmé Weijun Wang, Bluestockings returns, and more.
Morning Bites: Rumaan Alam, War Literature, Charlie Jane Anders, Thou’s Nirvana Covers, and More
In our morning reading: a Rumaan Alam book coming to the big screen, Charlie Jane Anders on storytelling, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Replacements Biography, Camille Perri, Katherine Towler, Rachel Cantor Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: delving into the history of the Replacements, interviews with Rachel Cantor and Camille Perri, and more.
Morning Bites: Rick Moody’s Crazy Rhythms, IKEA killing books, presidential libraries, and more
Rick Moody talks about The Feelies at The Rumpus. Little known fact: sometime in the Middle Ages, a blind prophet said that in 2011, the redesigning of cheap IKEA bookshelves would signal the end of books. Dan Sinker (@MayorEmanuel, Punk Planet) does Twitter fiction for Huffington Post Books. The Paris Review talks to Ishmael Reed about Juice!, his first novel in over fifteen years (on the always wonderful Dalkey Archives). Going to Germany to buy books. The Reagan and Nixon […]
Bites: Harry Potter is a self-hating Jew, Dan Sinker, Chuck Palahniuk, Dark Dark Dark, and more
Six-Word Memoirs, meet the Gigantic Quotes Twitter Project. Play nice. If Harry Potter tells that old joke about two Jews rubbing a penny together, and Harry Potter is Jewish, does that make him an anti-Semite? The Millions teaches me that there is a genre called “mom books”. So this is what Dan Sinker – founder of Punk Planet – is up to. Chuck Palahniuk relates to Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, and is afraid of being buried alive according […]