In our morning reading: Roxane Gay has written a powerful essay on Ferguson; information on donating to Ferguson’s library; news on Gabriel García Márquez’s archive; interviews with Atticus Lish and Lidia Yuknavitch; and more.
In our afternoon reading: new writing from Porochista Khakpour, an interview with Emily St. John Mandel, the cover for Sarah McCarry’s next novel, searching for the Headless Horseman, and more.
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.
For your holiday weekend reading: John Wray profiled Nick Cave for the Times, a new web issue of Gigantic is now out, new fiction from China Miéville, an interview with Kate Zambreno, writing from Chelsea Hodson and Alexandra Molotkow, and more. We’ll return on Monday.
Music recommendations from Owen Pallett and Porochista Khakpour, reviews of books from Deji Olukotun and Kyle Coma-Thompson, Cheever on film, and more.
In this morning’s reading: an interview with Porochista Khakpour, translations of Beowulf old and new, a review of Francine Prose’s latest, Wole Soyinka on Paris, and more.
This morning: thoughts on the writings of Porochista Khakpour, new work from Wendy C. Ortiz, Maxwell Neely-Cohen on his formative years as a writer, and more.
Every Friday, we will be bringing you this bite sized guide to things going on that we find interesting for the next seven days to follow. Saturday, November 14th Craig Finn, Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, and some guy named Chuck Klosterman are doing a 1PM happy hour at Le Poisson Rouge. Ten bucks. Another Hold Steady member (and guy soon to be published on Julius Singer Press), Franz Nicolay plays with one of our favorite bands, The Shondes, […]