I sort of want to just throw up my hands and condemn us all, because aren’t we exchanging all these words in the name of feminism? Or are we all just catty bitches?
Wells Tower in the “Far Eastern Conference” with Stephon Marbury
Wells Tower has written a pretty great piece about former Coney Island Baby, T’Wolves prodigy, and Knicktastrophe Stephon Marbury. The article reveals Marbury would like to found a minor-nation in the American South by selling inexpensive sneakers (AND it might just happen)
B-Sides and Rarities: Donovan Hohn
B-Sides and Rarities is a semi-regular feature in which we highlight interesting sections of interviews that ended up on the cutting room floor.
Does the Novel Have a Future? Tao Lin Will Tell You.
“I do, sometimes—rarely, I think—want to know, ‘What do you think other people are going to be thinking about in 20 years?’ or ‘How do you feel humankind, generally, is going to feel like in 50 or 100 years?,'” writes Tao Lin in “Does the Novel Have a Future? The Answer is in This Essay!” “But mostly I want to know, ‘What are you thinking about?’ and ‘How do you feel?'”
The Literary Knicks and The End of Free Darko
Embedded in the Free Darko’s beatific rendering of NBA history, The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, is a tribute to “The Literary Knicks”, the championship teams of the early seventies who rocked both mutton and writing chops.
Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer!
Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
I just finished reading Alfred Kazin’s book Writing Was Everything, written 1995 and worked up from his Massey Lectures at Harvard. The vitality of Kazin’s writing is so moving, so infectious, and his portraits of the writers and intellectuals of the day so enticing, I wanted to share some here.
Roald Dahl Stories to Appear on UK Cereal Boxes
Let me tell you 5 ways in which this plan will totally backfire and destroy a generation of future Ricky Gervais’s, and Hugh Grants’s, and other bumbling footy-players.
I Celebrate Myself: The Walt Whitman Self-Review
The Age of Self-Promotion has a new patron saint.
Chris Adrian reads from The Great Night
Check out this clip of Chris Adrian reading from his forthcoming novel The Great Night (April 26) is a few months old, but timely and worth a good chunk of your day.