This morning: new writing from Mitchell S. Jackson, Molly Crabapple on the Syrian civil war, Sarah Rose Etter on art, Gina Frangello talked with BuzzFeed, and more.
This afternoon: reading Okey Ndibe’s new novel, checking out new fiction from Rachel Cantor, Ken Burns’s next project, an interview with Matt Fraction, and more.
This week, I had the pleasure of reading four novels — three recent, one older — in which styles and genres that one might not expect to collide are brought together. Sometimes this is ornately constructed; for others, the approach seems to have been to place disparate elements in close proximity and see what emerges.
Talking with Deborah Solomon about her Norman Rockwell biography, writers on dining in Paris, Nicola Griffith interviewed, and more.
Thoughts on Sarah Bruni’s superhero-influenced novel, book recommendations from Rachel Cantor, Andrew Bujalski and Penelope Houston are interviewed, and more.