Chapter 5
The DMV is a Visual Cult Object to me.
When stepping from outside into the glass antechamber, one feels they are in a limbo space.
The second set of doors swing open to the waiting area, the catechumen.
Morning Bites: J. Robbins Interviewed, Bora Chung’s Latest, Jasmine Walls’s Recommendations, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with J. Robbins, recommended comics from Black creators, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Sheila Heti’s Latest, Philip K. Dick Award Nominees, Chelsea G. Summers Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: an excerpt from Sheila Heti’s new book, an interview with Chelsea G. Summers, and more.
Silver Fingers
Silver Fingers
by Ellie Eberlee
It wasn’t meant to become a habit. I’d read the novels before. The essays, too—everyone has. I owned multiple copies of each actual book: the shelves of my bedroom back in Toronto housed three editions of The Voyage Out, two each of Night and Day and Jacob’s Room, five of Mrs. Dalloway, six of To the Lighthouse (including a beloved, rare hardcover edition with watercolor illustrations I’d been given for my twenty-third birthday), and one of The Waves. With me in Brooklyn I had Night and Day, Dalloway, and Lighthouse downloaded on my Kindle. Hell, I had the whole collection on my phone as audiobooks, not that I’d tell anyone—Woolf obsessions are a bit of a cliché among queer white women.
Morning Bites: Lucy Sante’s Memoir, Christina Cooke on Writing, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Latest, and More
In our morning reading: thoughts on Lucy Sante’s new book, an interview with Christina Cooke, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Revisiting Padgett Powell, Kali Malone Interviewed, Brandi Wells’s Recommendations, and More
In our afternoon reading: revisiting a great Padgett Powell novel, Brandi Wells’s book recommendations, and more.
“Claire & Hank”: An Excerpt From Bradley Sides’s “Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood”
Today, we’re pleased to present an excerpt from Bradley Sides’s magnificently-titled new collection Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood. Alexander Weinstein called the book “a traveling carnival filled with pond monsters, vampire girls, fire-breathing children, and minor apocalypses” — and that certainly has our interest piqued. Read on for a glimpse inside.
Morning Bites: Christina Cooke on Writing, Literary Twins, Karolina Waclawiak on Cities, and More
In our morning reading: interviews with Christina Cooke and Karolina Waclawiak, twins in literature, and more.