In our morning reading: interviews with Ahmed Saadawi and Jenny Hval, the efforts to declare Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn home a landmark, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Elena Ferrante Revisited, Jenny Hval Interviewed, New Year’s Reading, and More
In our afternoon reading: revisiting an Elena Ferrante novel, interviews with Jenny Hval and Jason Diamond, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Alexandra Kleeman and Lincoln Michel on Fiction, Laurie Penny Interviewed, Sarah Gerard, and More
In our afternoon reading: Alexandra Kleeman and Lincoln Michel talk fiction, new nonfiction from Sarah Gerard, an interview with Laurie Penny, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Laia Jufresa Interviewed, Szilvia Molnar Nonfiction, Franz Kafka, Jenny Hval, and More
In our afternoon reading: Laia Jufresa interviewed by Valeria Luiselli, thoughts on new music by Jenny Hval, and much more.
Afternoon Bites: Tracy O’Neill on Patsy Cline, Ayize Jama-Everett, Experimental Music, and More
In our afternoon reading: new writing from Tracy O’Neill, a Dean Wareham tour diary, a playlist from Ayize Jama-Everett, thoughts on the new season of True Detective, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Edelstein on “Gatsby,” Jenny Hval, Joe Hill’s Latest, Artist Novels, and More
“The best thing about Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated/much-dreaded The Great Gatsby is that, for all its computer-generated whoosh and overbroad acting, it is unmistakably F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.” David Edelstein’s review of a certain film that’s highly anticipated around these parts is now up. Jenn Pelly interviewed Jenny Hval for Pitchfork. “It’s the fact that NOS4A2—a relentless, profoundly disturbing monster of a book—reads at every level like King’s work at its prime, a discomfiting mix of the otherworldly and quotidian, seeded with buried […]