In our Monday morning reason: news of (and audio from) a Lydia Lunch reissue, new writing from Dolan Morgan and Sarah Jean Alexander, an interview with Jessica Hopper, and more.
Weekend Bites: Janet Malcolm on Joseph Mitchell, New Saeed Jones Essay, Rosie Schaap, Janet Weiss and Meredith Graves in Conversation, and More
In our weekend reading: a new essay from Saeed Jones, Janet Malcolm on Joseph Mitchell, conversations between Janet Weiss and Meredith Graves and Sarah Gerard and Daniel Schoonebeek, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Laura van den Berg, Notes on Joseph Mitchell, William Boyle Interviewed, and More
In our Friday afternoon reading: talking literary influences with Laura van den Berg, a joint interview with Atticus Lish and John Benditt, checking in with William Boyle, and much more.
Joseph Mitchell, Excerpted
It is a daily paper, but owing to some peculiarity in the delivery of second-class mail in New York City it arrives at my apartment house every third or fourth day in batches of two or three or four issues, each issue tightly rolled and tightly wrapped in a brown-paper wrapper, and when I open my mailbox and find a batch waiting for me I am almost as glad to see it as I was during my first year or […]