“Saul Steinberg, the artist, said one of the major problems for the creative person is to avoid boredom. . .…
A Sequence on Sequence, Part 6: Peter Tieryas Liu
I stuffed too many stories into the first draft of Watering Heaven. There were originally thirty of them and I…
Noy Holland’s Swim for the Little One First
Noy Holland’s new collection of short fiction, Swim for the Little One First, came out in September. I would…
Moving Through the World: An Interview with Alex Gallo-Brown
In March of this year, Alex Gallo-Brown sent me an email about a book of poems called The Language…
Much Gnashing of Teeth: Reviewing a Review of Book Reviews
Jacob Silverman writes “Against Enthusiasm” at Slate: “The writer Emma Straub has 9,192 Twitter followers . . . let’s say…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass (continued)
25 remaining, & here they are, picking up where we left off, with Tolstoy & his disgraced Natasha 26) The…
Unstuck #2
[Unstuck‘s first issue, which came out last November, was big: 352 lavishly illustrated pages, and incredible fun to read…
For Big Other on William H. Gass’s Birthday
If one tried to construct the Temple of Literature from only the fifty “pillars” below, it would collapse spectacularly. Nevertheless,…
William Walsh’s “Literary Pillars”
After examining three bookshelf walls in our home—one in the living room and two in the basement (one on the…
Tim Horvath’s “Literary Pillars”
The Top Five: As widely as my tastes ebb and flow, these five remain, stalwarts, five friends I want with…