Afternoon Bites: Junot Díaz and Genre, Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s New Album, xTx’s Mix, and More

  New Godspeed You! Black Emperor, everybody. Coming to Philadelphia next month: the 215 Festival returns.  One of our editors still has fond memories of seeing Robert Christgau and Francis Davis in conversation at a previous iteration of said festival… …and a week after that, the Mosaic Literary Conference comes to NYC. Junot Díaz talks with Wired about his forays into science fiction. Bryan Lee O’Malley interviewed Andrew Hussie. xTx made The Outlet a mix. Arty Shepard of the excellent Greenpoint […]

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Afternoon Bites: Dennis Cooper, “Justified,” Renee Gladman, and more

“More than a novel, The Ravickians is a kind of curated environment, one built of the culture, language, and architecture of its people…” At The Collagist, Tom DeBeauchamp reviews Renee Gladman’s The Ravickians. A week and change after the news of Ed Park’s new gig was revealed, The Towering Irrelevance makes what is perhaps the most astute observation of all. At Tablet, Irin Carmon writes about the loss of her German passport. The Book Bench chats with Barbara Epler of […]

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Afternoon Bites: Gary Lutz, Charles Bock, Chicago Books, and more

Charles Bock is starting his own writing workshop, to begin in March. At The L Magazine, Mark Asch chats with Gary Lutz. Susan Tepper interviews Bradford Morrow Numerous music writers told The Awl the song they’d listened to the most in the preceding year. CBS Chicago provides a “Best New Chicago Books” list, and a number of Vol.1 favorites are on it. Vouched is running a contest with chapbooks from xTx and Frank Hinton as prizes. Brandon Graham discusses his creative […]

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