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Bryan Washington
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Supposedly Fun
The early skepticism for The End of the Tour may have been misguided. David Poland caught up with James Ponsoldt (the film’s director) and Donald Marguiles (its Pulitzer-winning screenwriter) to touch on Wallaces’s legacy, the Lipsky interview, and the process behind what’s since…
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Long Way Home
Joshua Mohr tackles time, addiction, and invisible dogs over at Lit Hub: I’d love to tell you what happened next with the Rattler, love to tell you some adventure I went on with him. But the truth is I can’t…
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Letter to Everyone Else
Ta-Nehisi Coates continues to storm the literary world over at Rolling Stone and New York Magazine, and if those accolades weren’t enough, Toni Morrison has decreed him to “fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died.”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) In which Obama becomes the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. In which the debate over Common Core leads to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) In galactic news, now we know what Pluto looks like. Ever wonder where all the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge money went? Two…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) In a month of historic progressions, the US, Iran, and six other nations have reached a nuclear deal. Donald Trump and the noted…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) In the best news ever for someone yet to be determined, J.K. Rowling has announced an open casting call for her Harry Potter spin-off.…
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Perfunctory Rebellion
Over at BOMB, A.L. Stein sits down with Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, to chat about metaphysics, attachments, and her relationship with the normative: “The normative/transgressive dichotomy is so deep. I remember a student I had a while ago,…
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Basin Street Blues
Jami Attenberg schools Travel and Leisure on the nuance of New Orleans, noting that “for a boisterous city, New Orleans can be awfully quiet when you need it to be.”
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) For the second time in as many arrests, Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman has escaped from prison though an underground tunnel. Donald Trump…
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All of the Above
Over at the New Yorker, Alejandro Zambra has a piece of post-fiction prose from his collection Facsímil; it’s a parody on the entire notion of education. Read Zambra’s thoughts on the piece, and the collection, here.
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Not From This Dimension
Sarah Gerard interviews Ottesa Moshfegh for Hazlitt—among other concessions, Moshfegh admits that she’s “not from this dimension”: I’m like an alien in a human body. I come from a different place, a different plane of existence. I can’t explain that other place because I…