In our morning reading: an interview with Tess Gunty, grant application advice, and more.
Morning Bites: Ashleigh Bryant Phillips Interviewed, Maaza Mengiste, Mark Lanegan’s Latest, and More
In our morning reading: interviews with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips and Maaza Mengiste, new music from Jarvis Cocker, and more.
Pop Songs For an Unpredictable Time: Notes on Jasmine Dreame Wagner’s “Switchblade Moon”
I still rent DVDs through the mail. There’s usually a lag time of six-to-eight months between the time I add a movie to my queue and its arrival. I always forget what I’ve requested by that point and get a kick out of the small-scale time travel, the reminder of what I was thinking months prior. This took a wrong turn back in March. The first three movies to arrive during the onset of the Covid quarantine were Soylent Green, The Omega Man, and The Andromeda Strain.