Porochista Khakpour talked with Adult, Paula Bomer’s collection is reviewed, new music from Publicist UK, notes on reading in bars, recommended American writers, and more.
Talking with Sergio de la Pava and Paula Bomer, Kim Gordon on film, reviews of books from Boris Vian and Christopher Beha, and more.
Talking with Marc Ribot and Stacey D’Erasmo, Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations, writers recommend short stories, and more.
Updates from Paula Bomer and Seth Fried, a report from this year’s Brooklyn Zine Fest, notes on L. Ron Hubbard’s jazz album, bookshelf tips from the Times, and more.
Books about polar bear obsessives (kind of), Lena Dunham’s favorite Criterion Collection films, a new Kevin Sampsell essay, cinematic sportscasters, and more.
File under “things we never thought we’d type in 2012”: here’s some new music from Texas is the Reason. Paula Bomer, who’s reading at Franklin Park next Monday, was interviewed at The Nervous Breakdown. Molly Ringwald and Panio Gianopoulos went shopping for books at McNally Jackson. Rosie Schaap talked with The Drinking Diaries. BoingBoing has selected their favorite comics of 2012. Emily Witt on Charles Dickens’s children. Here’s a song with lyrics by Norman Lock, who has a new collection […]
After learning she’s pregnant with her third child, Sonia — the protagonist of Paula Bomer’s new novel Nine Months — embarks on a frantic road trip, revisiting old friends and past homes. Taken together with her earlier collection Baby, they showcase Bomer as a smart observer of class, economic anxieties, shifting familial bonds, and the frustrations that can come with lives spent engaged in creative disciplines. (It doesn’t hurt that Bomer’s fiction is often impressively — and sometimes bleakly — comic.) After […]
Danielle Dutton of The Dorothy Project is interviewed at The Paris Review. (And if you haven’t picked up the Barbara Comyns book pictured above, you really should.) Maria Konnikova looks at the disappearance of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, and wonders what the implications are for books as a whole: “Does the publisher publicly—and prominently—acknowledge the error by leaving everything as it was and just removing the ability for new readers to make a purchase until the book is reissued or otherwise amended, leaving […]