“Separated from his native Nigeria by resentment, time, and trauma, Julius treats the clinically depressed at Columbia-Presbyterian while soberly addressing his own suspicion of a worsening emotional miasma and its many symptoms, including the terrifying return of bedbugs.”
Edgar Allen Poe- TB-carrier, voting-enthusiast, and inventor of the modern detective novel, will soon make the jump to the silver screen in the image of the great John Cusack, BUT DID YOU KNOW, come this Fall, he might also be solving mysteries in your living room?
Harlem Is Nowhere – Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
“We need more books like this. As Americans in a swiftly changing and displaced nation, the project of walking and talking, reading and wondering, must be done with great seriousness.”
The lore surrounding Hoboes, Vagabonds, Drifters, Rogues, Tramps and Striders excite in us a passion seemingly unmatched by other American itinerants (I’m looking at you, BIRDS). Few are quite as interesting, confusing, and regional as The Leatherman, who kept a precise circuit in the Hudson River area between 1856 to 1889.
ATTN: NYC. GO SEE TWO SMART AND TALENTED WRITERS FROM QUEENS TALK TO EACH OTHER.
This is seriously what Full-Stop editors dream about, and then have to take cold, cold, showers just to get ready for our Americorps jobs- Victor Lavalle and Gary Shteyngart will be sharing the stage tonight at the 92Y. If you’re in town, it’s only $10 (If you’re over 35, it’s $19, and I don’t trust […]
Quarterly Lit Mag TaiPei Deathmatch
A Public Space vs. Tin House
Two Mags enter, one Mag leaves:
Mad-Mag Beyond the WordDome
Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog’s narration verges on self-parody (probably because it’s so ripe for it) during the lowest points of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, a mostly unfocused but sometimes beautiful exploration of the world’s oldest cave paintings. Once a year, a group of French academics are allowed to explore and document the cave paintings, which eerily reveal […]
“The humor and generosity of the book are its strength, if only because at its core is a sense of great loss.”
The Private Lives of Trees – Alejandro Zambra
“For all his melancholy, Julián is a fragile and brilliant creation, one whose own laws for living mirror the strictures of the novel.”
Dan Chaon in conversation with Max Rivlin-Nadler Dan Chaon is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. A National Book Award finalist, his most recent novel, Await Your Reply, was described as “ambitious, gripping and unrelentingly bleak.” Sometimes, Chaon writes about men who like to drink beer and look at fires. Sometimes, Chaon […]