In this morning’s reading: news of a Kathy Acker biography, new writing from Katherine Faw Morris, a talk with one of the folks behind Sublime Frequencies, an interview with Julia Fierro, and more.
Hamilton Leithauser discusses his new album with a fellow Walkmen alumnus, scenes from Karl Ove Knausgård’s Community Bookstore appearance, thoughts on books from Patricia Lockwood and Julia Fierro, zine editors interviewed, and more.
Meghan O’Rourke on Karl Ove Knausgaard, a look back on Spike Lee’s early films, music writers revisit Hole, Stephen McBean’s playlist, and more.
This afternoon: inside the writing of a book about the influence of Network, thoughts on new science fiction novels, revisiting the influential music of Disco Inferno, how Karl Ove Knausgård and Beyoncé make cultural events, and more.
Reading about science, economics, and history in order to get out of our bubble. It became important for me in 2013 to read things that weren’t about Brooklyn, American literature, booze, grub, hair, or the fifty-five TV shows you just have to be watching. I get through non-fiction quicker than novels, because I’m not tearing it apart while I read it. So I took to the stars and the soil whenever possible. Livescience, Orion, The New Yorker, Cosmos, Discover, Outside, […]
Like a lot of readers I know, I read — devoured, maybe — Jesse Barron’s interview with Karl Ove Knausgaard last weekend. I’d been reading the second part of his six-volume memoir/novel/whatever he prefers to call it My Struggle, subtitled A Man In Love. I’d read the first part of said work last year, along with his novel A Time For Everything; both were on my list of the best books I’d read in 2012.