Why do I listen to NPR? Lately, it seems as though it’s been overrun by heathens, although maybe I’m just…
Being About Aboutness
The title of Joshua Landy’s How to Do Things with Fictions should not lead you to believe that what is…
Rust Belt Bindery
Rust Belt Bindery is “a book bindery that’s committed to producing and distributing new work as well as repairing and rebinding…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 5a: Matthew Salesses
[Matthew Salesses was kind enough to expand just a bit on his earlier thoughts about ordering his new book,…
Kellie Wells’s Fat Girl, Terrestrial
“Chronology commits you to a straight line, I said. This story’s ovoid.” But no, not ovoid either. Vertical. Kellie Wells’s…
elimae’s last issue?
Some sad news from Cooper Renner and Brandon Hobson, editors of elimae: In light of which, may I suggest…
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…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.
25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger…