In our afternoon reading: new poetry from Tommy Pico, an interview with Jennifer Baker of We Need Diverse Books, Michael J. Seidlinger begins looking at the year in indie lit for 2015, and more.
A look at The Basement Tapes Complete; interviews with May-Lan Tan, Brenna Ehrlich, and Alex Ross Perry; Sarah Gerard on crowdfunding her book tour; Keith Gessen talks Amazon; and more.
Thoughts on the Mitford sisters, Drew Daniel against favorite-album lists, interviews with Cameron Esposito, Hamish Kilgour, and Sean H. Doyle, and more.
Alexander Chee on the new book from Celeste Ng, writers on moving from short stories to novels, an excerpt from Tommy Pico, an interview with David Connerley Nahm, and more,
Interviews with Tommy Pico, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Daniel Mendelsohn; recommended reading from Blake Butler; new writing from Bruce Sterline and Edan Lepucki, and more.
If you don’t know Teebs, you’re about to. Eric and I sat down with one of the hardest working and most genuinely love-filled poets in America, who just so happens to live in Bushwick, Tommy Pico. We cover a ton of ground in this episode–from Tommy’s early years on a reservation to his arrival in NYC and the beginnings of his growth as a human being and as a writer. We really hope you enjoy this as much as we […]
This afternoon: a Pulp album turns twenty, Saul Bellow on film, Salman Rushdie’s tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, new fiction from Nicola Griffith, a Juliet Escoria interview, poetry from Tommy Pico, and more.
In our morning reading: a 1989 Ellen Willis essay, thoughts on the new edition of Slint’s Spiderland, talking with Mimi Pond, and more.