In our weekend reading: book recommendations from Jeff VanderMeer and Alex DiFrancesco, thoughts on an archival recording from Broadcast, and more.
Weekend Bites: Revisiting Dino Buzzati, Jacob Wren’s Latest, Baqytgul Sarmekova’s Fiction, and More
In our weekend reading: revisiting a Dino Buzzati novella, thoughts on BASIC’s debut album, and more.
Morning Bites: Kamasi Washington, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Sofia Samatar on Carmen Maria Machado, Jacob Wren, Willeford on Film, and More
In our morning reading: new music from saxophonist Kamasi Washington, essential new writing from Ta-Nehisi Coates, interviews with Jarboe and Karl Ove Knausgaard, new writing from Jacob Wren, and more.
“A Terrible, Even Paralyzing Goal”: Talking Narratives With Jacob Wren
Reading Jacob Wren‘s Polyamorous Love Song takes the reader into a densely-constructed series of narratives. Writers wrestle with the familiar, political radicals engage in shootouts with law enforcement, and intellectuals vanish into their own narratives. It’s dizzying stuff. I should probably also mention that the political radicals mentioned above are restless, gun-toting mascots; that such a concept can work as both absurdly funny and utterly terrifying is one of the strengths of Wren’s novel. In advance of Wren’s reading at McNally […]