Strangers
We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2011 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Laurel Nakadate, still from Stay the Same Never Change,...
View ArticleJust Gotta Say…
Nothing against Swamplandia! or The Pale King, but we can‘t help wishing the Pulitzer Board had gotten its act together—and chosen Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, the novella that appeared in our Summer...
View ArticleNotes from a Bookshop: February, or the Folly of Love
Sitting alone in my tiny bookshop on a cold February morning, I have the sensation that I’ve conjured a dream into reality. The light is crisp and blue through the door. A flight of red paper...
View ArticleLaughing in the Face of Death: A Vonnegut Roundtable
“Birds were talking. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, ‘Poo-tee-weet?’” —Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut A well-constructed e-mail and some guts on my part had one day inspired Harold Bloom to...
View ArticleWhat We’re Loving: Atomic Weapons, Augustus, Ang Lee
The bronze head of Augustus with glass and alabaster eyes; from Meroë, Sudan, ca. 27–25 BC. Photo: British Museum “I have worked in an atomic weapons depot, a Veterans’ psychiatric hospital and a...
View ArticleOn Paul Metcalf’s Genoa
Metcalf’s “poeticized collage” reckons with his great-grandfather, Herman Melville. Paul Metcalf It is extremely rare, these days, to encounter something that feels completely new. That is, most...
View ArticleThe House of Song: An Interview with Michael Robbins
The Overlook Mountain House—near Woodstock, New York—features prominently in “You Haven’t Texted Since Saturday.” After his first two collections, Alien vs. Predator and The Second Sex, Michael...
View ArticleBing & Ruth and Amy & David
David Moore of Bing & Ruth. New York has felt like a second home since my parents first took me there as a teen in the early eighties. I grew up in rural coastal North Carolina, but the Mets...
View ArticleStrangers
We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2011 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Laurel Nakadate, still from Stay the Same Never Change,...
View ArticleJust Gotta Say…
Nothing against Swamplandia! or The Pale King, but we can‘t help wishing the Pulitzer Board had gotten its act together—and chosen Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, the novella that appeared in our Summer...
View ArticleNotes from a Bookshop: February, or the Folly of Love
Sitting alone in my tiny bookshop on a cold February morning, I have the sensation that I’ve conjured a dream into reality. The light is crisp and blue through the door. A flight of red paper...
View ArticleLaughing in the Face of Death: A Vonnegut Roundtable
“Birds were talking. One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, ‘Poo-tee-weet?’” —Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut A well-constructed e-mail and some guts on my part had one day inspired Harold Bloom to...
View ArticleWhat We’re Loving: Atomic Weapons, Augustus, Ang Lee
The bronze head of Augustus with glass and alabaster eyes; from Meroë, Sudan, ca. 27–25 BC. Photo: British Museum “I have worked in an atomic weapons depot, a Veterans’ psychiatric hospital and a...
View ArticleOn Paul Metcalf’s Genoa
Metcalf’s “poeticized collage” reckons with his great-grandfather, Herman Melville. Paul Metcalf It is extremely rare, these days, to encounter something that feels completely new. That is, most...
View ArticleThe House of Song: An Interview with Michael Robbins
The Overlook Mountain House—near Woodstock, New York—features prominently in “You Haven’t Texted Since Saturday.” After his first two collections, Alien vs. Predator and The Second Sex, Michael...
View ArticleBing & Ruth and Amy & David
David Moore of Bing & Ruth. New York has felt like a second home since my parents first took me there as a teen in the early eighties. I grew up in rural coastal North Carolina, but the Mets...
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