Zadie Smith talks the essay and the novel at The Guardian. An excerpt: Novels, by contrast, are idiosyncratic, uneven, embarrassing,…
Big Other Contributors’ News #6
Molly Gaudry and Kim Chinquee have been translated into Polish, alongside Matt Bell, Jamie Iredell, Claudia Smith, and a number…
Genre and Its Discontents
Piggybacking on Sean Lovelace’s post about genre, I offer this provocative recent interview with Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., coeditor of the…