The Customer Is Always Wrong, the latest graphic novel from Mimi Pond, follows her 2014 book Over Easy. Inspired by Pond’s own experiences as a young artist working in an Oakland restaurant in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Pond neatly captures a host of facets of human experience, from protagonist Madge’s creative evolution to the shifting dynamics of her workplace to a series of harrowing drug-fueled misadventures. Pond will be in conversation with Todd Oldham at Fishs Eddy — […]
Morning Bites: Chelsea Martin, Roadside Americana, Mimi Pond Interviewed, and More
In our morning reading: interviews with Chelsea Martin and Mimi Pond, a selection of notable notebooks, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Mimi Pond, Lidia Yuknavitch Interviewed, Annie DeWitt Fiction, Ottessa Moshfegh, and More
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Mimi Pond and Ottessa Moshfegh, fiction by Michael T. Fournier, and more.
Morning Bites: Ellen Willis, Newspapers from the Future, Mimi Pond Interviewed, Slint, and More
In our morning reading: a 1989 Ellen Willis essay, thoughts on the new edition of Slint’s Spiderland, talking with Mimi Pond, and more.