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Bryan Washington
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Strange Phenomena
Over at the Atlas Review, Natalie Eilbert drops in on Valeria Luiselli in Harlem: I sometimes teach Spanish to a lot of undergraduates at Columbia, which is something that I love. It gives me the illusion, hopefully not a delusion,…
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Natural Endings
Kazuo Ishiguro is interviewed at the Los Angeles Review of Books; among other things, the writer touches on world-building, jumping genres, and why, sometimes, it takes a little while to get where you’re going: Well, it took me four years or five years…
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“We Don’t Smoke in Muskogee”
Nicholas Lemann breaks down America’s social castes at the New York Review of Books.
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When the Story Begins
Longreads gifts us newly translated fiction from Antonio Tabucci: He must be almost ninety, he spends his afternoons gazing out the window at New York’s skyscrapers, a Puerto Rican girl comes each morning to tidy up his apartment, she brings…
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The Highest Bidder
Valeria Luiselli previews The Story of My Teeth for BOMB Magazine; among the dentures being optioned are G.K. Chesterton’s, Virginia Woolf’s, Charles Lamb’s, Rousseau’s, and the fangs of Mr. Montaigne.
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Separate Shores
Down at Texas Monthly, Domingo Martinez riffs on South Padre’s (regrettable) legacy: Now, spring break in South Texas is not what it is elsewhere. Here it’s less a quantifiable series of days on a calendar before you return to class…
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Tweeting Me Softly
Johnetta Elzie and DeRay McKesson, the authors of America’s first full scale 21st century civil rights movement, get the full profile treatment at the New York Times Magazine.
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Faulkner’s Quarter
At The Daily Beast, Nathaniel Rich riffs on William Faulkner’s New Orleans: William Faulkner had recently begun a draft of “Dark House,” the novel that would ultimately become Absalom, Absalom!, when he arrived in New Orleans on February 15, 1934. He…
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Seeing Double
Over at Texas Monthly, Jeff Salamon chats with Attica Locke, mystery novelist, unassuming Houstonian, and Hollywood titan. They touch on code-switching, freelancing, and writing the gun scenes “all wrong”: Black people have seen two versions of ourselves on TV: we are…
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Sweet and Sour
We’ve heard of writing prompts before, but the folks over at Vice are doing something truly different: in a new Flickr-inspired series, Stranger Than Flickton, they give authors five pictures, each of them food-related, and let them have at it. The resulting…
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The End of the Diary
Over at Bookforum, Caitlin Johnson touches base with Sarah Manguso about her new memoir Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, motherhood, and a lifetime spent recording memories and experiences. And for even more on Ongoingness, and Manguso’s thoughts about how motherhood does (or doesn’t) change being a…
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Strolling Through New York
Nathaniel Rich breaks down New York’s reputation, and literary history, as the greatest walking city for NYT Magazine: Yet the idea of New York as a walker’s paradise—a city best, and only authentically, grasped by sauntering through it—has persisted. Much of the great…