The Prosperity Gospel of Oscar Wao
Or how reading Junot Diaz will teach us to pull ourselves up and out of the ongoing economic apocalypse. Just kidding. Second-rate jokes aside, Dean Bakopoulous’s piece in the Wall Street Journal, How Reading Junot Diaz Can Help America Prosper, is as moving and insightful a moral argument for fiction I’ve read in quite a […]
A Reading List from Donald Barthelme
I’ve been drawn to lists of books that authors recommend for about as long as I’ve been taking fiction seriously. Over time, this interest has evolved into something critical — a study of taste and influence — but when it began it was pretty mystical: I think some part of me felt that if I […]
We’ll be using this space for posting and commenting on links, making short observations about what we’re reading, dispatches from readings and book parties and worlds outside literature (i.e. art, film, and television), funny things we think when we’re riding the subway, lists of our favorite KISS albums (Alive! tops the list, duh), twitter feeds […]