Weekend Bites: Bernard Malamud’s Best Work, Jennifer Gilmore, James Turrell Profiled, Bob Mould on Phoenix, and More

Bernard Malamud would have been 99 this weekend. Tablet‘s Adam Chandler took a straw poll to learn what is considered to be his best work. Lauren Elkin on why Anne Boelyn continues to obsess us. Jennifer Gilmore: interviewed at The Paris Review. Bryan Waterman reviewed Richard Hell’s memoir, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp. Harper’s Bazaar interviewed James Turrell about his life and work. Bob Mould on Phoenix. Linda Besner on the ethics of publishing posthumous work. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn […]

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Afternoon Bites: Gary Lutz, Ellen Willis, Bob Mould, and more

“I guess it’s more accessible, or at least a little less willfully disingratiating than my other books, which had more than a touch of solipsism. ” Gary Lutz is interviewed about his new collection Divorcer in The Paris Review. Kyle Ryan chats with Bob Mould. Talya Cooper, writing in Dusted, talks about Ellen Willis and the Woods/Vivian Girls side project Babies. A number of literary New Yorkers, including one Vol.1 editor, suggest some gift ideas for the weeks to come. Folks from Fucked Up […]

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