In our afternoon reading: new fiction from César Aira, interviews with Juliet Escoria and Diane Williams, thoughts on the new Torche album, Kelefa Sanneh on NYHC history, and more.
In our afternoon reading: Zadie Smith on Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele; thoughts on books by Natalie Eilbert, Andrew Worthington, and Diane Cook; new Cesar Aira fiction; a Sufjan Stevens interview; and more.
In our afternoon reading: a new essay from Saeed Jones, interviews with Victor LaValle and John Reis, new writing from Natalie Eilbert, and more.
In our weekend reading: an interview with Leslie Jamison, new poetry from Natalie Eilbert, the “art monster” and 2014 in culture, and more.
It’s the end of December. As I write this, I’m sitting on a couch in a basement in central New Jersey. I’ve made with some giftwrapping for gifts for family members, and I’m not quite ready to call it a night. David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks sits beside me, and I suspect that I’ll be reading a bit more of that before sleep claims me. I’m fairly tempted to say that the final week of 2014–of any year, really–is a time of […]
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Brandon Willitts of Words After War, new writing from Mish Way, reviews of new books from Lydia Millet and Charles D’Ambrosio, and more.
Conversations With the Stone Wife, the new chapbook from Natalie Eilbert, is a dizzying collection of poems that muse on art, history, and the body. After reading it, I was curious to know more, and reached out via email; what follows is our conversation about the chapbook’s themes and origins. (It’s also worth mentioning that Eilbert is Editor-in-Chief of the excellent journal The Atlas Review, and (along with Dolan Morgan) talked with Almost Live at Mellow Pages about that earlier this […]
Celebrating Scott Cheshire’s book release, new writing from Natalie Eilbert and Mairead Case, talking Jane Bowles, Ted Thompson discusses his debut, and more.