In our morning reading: new nonfiction from Alexis Coe, interviews with Jonathan Lee and Tanwi Nandini Islam, and more.
An Excerpt From Seth Colter Walls’s “Gaza, Wyoming”
You may be most familiar with Seth Colter Walls‘s cultural writings, for places like Pitchfork, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. He’s also the author of a new novel, Gaza, Wyoming (print/ebook), set in an alternate timeline where a Mitt Romney victory in the 2012 elections led to an dramatic foreign policy maneuver. About the novel, Keith Gessen has said, “[w]ith more than a shade of early Pynchon, Walls spins out an alternative vision of contemporary history that sheds some unflattering light […]