In our morning reading: an interview with John Darnielle, thoughts on recent books in translation, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Butler on Bernhard, She Shreds, Milk Music’s Latest, Kate Christensen, and More
Talking Jonathan Rosenbaum at the Los Angeles Review of Books. Blake Butler on Thomas Bernhard: “[S]ome of the blackest, most bare-teethed realist writing available.” Kate Christensen on the egg. She Shreds magazine: profiling the likes of Mary Timony and Marnie Stern. Excellent. “…the onslaught of ecological disaster has been experienced by most of us (outside of New Orleans and Florida) as a media phenomenon. Of course, that’s all changing.” Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon on Nathaniel Rich’s Odds Against Tomorrow, and literary floods. […]
Afternoon Bites: Aleksandar Hemon on Displacement, Ballard’s Memoir, Marnie Stern Interviewed, and More
“I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.” Aleksandar Hemon talked with the Times. Paul Constant previews this year’s APRIL Festival. (We interviewed the festival’s co-founder last month.) If you’re looking to buy some stocks and are decidedly fond of Moleskine notebooks, this might be your week. Dennis Lim reviews J.G. Ballard’s memoir. Christopher R. Weingarten on the […]
Afternoon Bites: Marnie Stern’s Latest, Ragnar Kjartansson, Scott McClanahan on “Crapalachia,” and More
“So Marnia is about that too: coming to terms with the person you are, rather than the person you might want to be, or once were.” Zach Baron on the latest from Marnie Stern. Steve Albini remembers Jason Molina. Hyperallergic on Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors“. Joseph Riippi talked Crapalachia with Scott McClanahan. Harry Taussig made his live debut at the age of 71 last week at SXSW. His new album on Tomkins Square sounds terrific. New fiction from Tim Horvath. Mish Way (of […]
Afternoon Bites: My Bloody Valentine’s Latest, Marnie Stern’s Dog, J Church’s Legacy, and More
So hey, My Bloody Valentine’s new album came out over the weekend. Ned Raggett has some initial thoughts on it, as do numerous editors at SPIN. Looking at race and class in Chris Kraus’s Summer of Hate. Did the New York Review of Books have the best first issue ever? Remembering J Church at the AV Club. An interview with Marnie Stern’s dog. Our own Tobias Carroll looks at Sean Ferrell’s Man in the Empty Suit. The February issue of decomP is up. Follow Vol. 1 […]