In our morning reading: thoughts on Helen Oyeyemi, excerpts from books by Kaitlyn Greenidge and Homero Aridjis, and much more.
Morning Bites: A Summer Brennan Excerpt, Laura van den Berg, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Playlist, Camden Joy Interviewed, and More
In our morning reading: an excerpt from Summer Brennan’s book, Laura van den Berg interviewed Stephanie Barber, Margaret Eby talks whiskey, and much more.
Afternoon Bites: Helen Phillips, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Latest, Harper Lee Excerpted, Duke Ellington Rarities, and More
In our afternoon reading: new writing from Helen Phillips, a review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s latest, thoughts on E. Nesbit, an excerpt from Harper Lee’s new book, and more.
Indexing: How much Wodehouse can you take(?), Cannery Row, Lispector, L.A. Review of Books podcast, and much more
A roundup of things consumed by our contributors. Tobias Carroll We’ve got two weeks of reading here. This….might take a while. Though it’s a strange cosmic joke that I made my way through the 850-page novel on the list to follow faster than nearly everything else on it.