I try to find the pieces
by Ahu Aydın
Baby in my arms, I sit on the living room carpet with my back against the sofa. I watch the wind invade through the window, from the setting sun. Dust particles catch the colors. The baby boy and I sit still. The breeze lifts the tips of our hair. I’ve never felt this light in my life.
In our weekend reading: thoughts on a new book by Camilla Grudova, notable recent music, and more.
In our afternoon reading: delving into Fernanda Trías’s fiction, an interview with Beth Hetland, and more.
Renowned microfiction author Joseph Young put out his new flash fiction collection The Thing I Was Trying to Tell You in June, and the collaborative children’s book Rocks: What Are They Doing also came out in June by artists Christine Sajecki and Michael Mäke. They got together for an amusing and enlightening conversation about their books, their process, and what art means to them.
Chapter 33
Streaming is genius because you get paid to share something the customer never owns.
Joselyn does market research and chooses who we promote on the front page. Morgen assists. It’s very clear Joselyn now has the Arto empire more than Morgen ever did. I’ll go with the last woman standing. Just don’t make me come out of retirement.
In our morning reading: an interview with Alison Espach, a playlist from Lindsey Drager, and more.
In our afternoon reading: an interview with Navid Sinaki, musical recommendations from Jon Hopkins, and more.
I don’t respond to cold calls much and I’m trying to get out of the book-review racket, but when Maggie Umber wrote me about her nearly wordless book Chrysanthemum Under the Waves, something told me to answer.
The jumping-off point was a piece Umber made for an anthology of graphic work inspired by the writing of Shirley Jackson. Her story, “The Tooth” features a malevolent stranger named James Harris. Soon Umber was seeing Harris not only in Jackson’s stories but also in her own life.