In our morning reading: nonfiction by Danzy Senna, an interview with Jessica Pratt, and more.
Morning Bites: Kelly Moran on Music, Alexis Wright’s Latest, Great Book Covers, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with Kelly Moran, great book covers, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Stacey Levine, Emma Straub on Bookselling, Dawn Powell Revisited, Dan Chaon Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Stacey Levine and Emma Straub, revisiting the fiction of Dawn Powell, and much more.
The Zinophile: Collages Visual and Literary
Last weekend, I went to a reading in celebration of Atlas Review editor/Sunday Stories alumnus Dolan Morgan’s birthday. Also there was a pile of newspapers — specifically, one called New York City Fires, in which Morgan’s poetry rests beside the artwork of Tom Oristalgio. The poems in here take a lot of found material, juxtaposing 19th-century news articles with contemporary Yelp reviews of spaces at the same location. It sounds jarring, but it’s surprisingly effective, the gulf between the hyperbole […]