This afternoon: Leda covers The Misfits, Lucy Knisley discusses her forthcoming graphic novels, Jeff Jackson talks Mira Corpora and what’s next, Blake Butler on football, and more.
This afternoon: revisiting “Krapp’s Last Tape,” interviews with Laura van den Berg and Jeff Jackson, a new Noveller album, and more.
A look at Jack Handey’s new novel, Teju Cole pays tribute to Kofi Awoonor, new fiction from Sarah Rose Etter at Hobart, and more.
Genius grants for Donald Antrim and Karen Russell, looking back at James Baldwin’s essays, Parquet Courts has a mixtape, Jeff Jackson has a playlist, and more.
An excerpt from Cari Luna’s new novel, previewing the NY Art Book Fair, taking an in-depth look at David Mamet’s films, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s prose inspiring vandalism, and more.
I’m probably stating the obvious here, but: solitude can yield impressive literary results. Samuel Beckett made stunning fiction from characters trapped in their own heads. Novels like Paul Harding’s Tinkers and Lydia Millet’s My Happy Life take similar approaches, taking the inner life of singular characters to a heightened level. There’s a certain school of nonfiction that places a narrator alone in a landscape and lets them work wonders with the scenery around them. And that, more or less, brings us to […]
Jeff Jackson discusses his excellent novel Mira Corpora in a pair of interviews, Survival Knife returns with a new seven inch, Rick Moody on Brian Eno’s ambient work, Reggie Watts talks with The Believer, and more.
Kim Gordon talks with Jessica Hopper, Jeff Jackson discusses his new novel, Lorin Stein on John O’Hara, new music from Jesu, and more.