What All the Fuzz is About: This Week in Books
These five new literary products will add more value to your life than whatever Silicon Valley has in store for you today.
Author Q&A: Mary Miller (Biloxi)
"There’s nothing wrong with writing when you feel like it, so long as you feel like it on a somewhat regular basis."
The Vegas Dilemma: So Many Notable New Books This Week
These six new books hitting the shelves today are actual fire.
Entries or (Emotional Accounting in Late Capitalism)
Truth is, some days I live merely to hit send. I understand the desire to press a button and get instantaneous results. Is this how bombs get dropped?
Moon and the Mars and A Slow Fire Burning: This Week in Books
This week offers a solid lineup of stimulating new books, including Kia Corthron's Moon and the Mars.
Author Q&A: David Leo Rice (Drifter)
"I think if more adults were in touch with their internal worlds, and proud of this fact, there’d be much less conflict in the external world."
Pumpkin Spice and Kat Chow: Taking in Tuesday’s New Books
Today’s new books—and other notable links. Mentioned: Kat Chow, Peter Heller, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Matt Bell, Nick Antosca, Ursula K. Le Guin.
Love Letter to a Shiny Thing
Sometimes at night I spend an hour or more rereading my text conversations with Sarah. I especially can't stop rereading the things I've said, amusing and pithy and clever things that I would never have said except to Sarah and because of Sarah.
An Afghan Perspective: The West Chose Wrong Problems to Solve, Wrong Methods to Solve Them
"The West set out to solve a series of problems in Afghanistan. The West is a very problem-solving culture. And one of the problems of Afghanistan is that it doesn't lend itself readily to being sorted out on the West's terms."
Interview: Alix Ohlin, Author of We Want What We Want
"I marvel at the accomplishments of other writers and feel called to write back in response, which is the whole reason I started writing in the first place. That’s the most helpful thing, and the most constant."