In our afternoon reading: interviews with Tracy O’Neill and Mary South, revisiting the music of Sonic Youth, and more.
Morning Bites: Ho Sok Fong’s Collection, Fiona Apple, Jonathan Franzen Interviewed, Robert Ashley, and More
In our morning reading: a review of Ho Sok Fong’s collection, Helena Fitzgerald on Fiona Apple’s music, and more.
Morning Bites: Brian Evenson Fiction, Irreversible Entanglements, Alexandra Chang Interviewed, Fiona Apple, and More
In our morning reading: short stories by Brian Evenson and Julio Cortázar, an interview with Alexandra Chang, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Zadie Reads O’Hara, Fiona Sings Macca, Nike Sells and Sells, and more
It’s going to be unbearably hot this week. Can someone farther downtown get us an ice cream sandwich? They’re not businessmen; they’re a business, man. A great essay on punk skaters and Nike’s insidious strategy for selling to them. Zadie Smith reads Frank O’Hara’s “Animals,” and we swoon. Fiona Apple covered Paul McCartney on Jimmy Fallon’s show last night, and at least one Vol. 1 editor freaked out. An architecturally inspired tanning booth begets an article in LA Weekly that […]