In our afternoon reading: Mish Way on style, Katy Waldman on Helen Macdonald, George R.R. Martin recommends Emily St. John Mandel’s latest, checking in with Lucy K. Shaw, and more.
If your taste in books favors ravaged landscapes, troubling futures, and oft-unsettling commentary on society, it’s a good time to be a reader. And as dystopian fiction goes through more and more permutations, we wanted to get some of our favorite writers together to discuss it. This panel will explore the current wave of dystopian fiction, how it mixes with other genres, where it’s going, and what it says about literature and society in general. Our panel will consist of: […]
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 afternoon reading: an interview with Kathleen Hanna, Justin Taylor talks goats and Iceland, Jon Stewart’s effect on the literary world, a look at contested manuscripts, and more.
An interview with Viv Albertine about her new memoir, Leesa Cross-Smith and Justin Taylor on books and food, thoughts on Station Eleven, and more.
In our afternoon reading: musicians react to Ferguson, Chuck Wendig on social media and empathy, an interview with Anthony Hegarty, Emily St. John Mandel on the new Lars Iyer novel, and more.
Notes on genre and contemporary fiction, new writing from Melissa Febos, revisiting Charles Mingus’s cat-training methods, DC punk video archives, and more,
In our afternoon reading: Emily St. John Mandel talked with Lincoln Michel, Chloe Caldwell talked with Emily Gould, a reaction to Steve Albini’s recent keynote on the internet and the music industry, and more.