A Declaration of Independence
Over at Collectors Weekly, Lisa Hix delivers a history of the American hobo.
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Bryan Washington
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Bryan Washington has written for Puerto Del Sol, Ninth Letter, and Midnight Breakfast, among others; he's also the recipient of a Houstonia Fellowship. He lives around New Orleans.
Didn’t Know a Thing
BOMB Magazine continues its Oral History project: a collection of oral biographies about New York City’s African-American artists. This week, Alteronce Gumby’s subject is Stanley Whitley: Stanley told me once, “There are many…
Burning Brightly
Over at Narratively, Anthony Taille takes us on a walk through Pennsylvania mining town Centralia, after the fire that tore it apart.
Oh, Say Can You See
Luke Mogelson delivers some short fiction at the New Yorker, about a National Guardsman down on his luck.
Always Part-Time
Over at KUOW, Sherman Alexie chats about why The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian just can’t stop getting banned.
Broken Beauty
Way back in February, Chris Arnade penned a piece on his relationship with street addict Beauty. After months of ups and downs, the two came to a reconciliation, and Arnade…
Speak for Yourself
Over at the New Yorker, Salman Rushdie looks back on an evening with Gunter Grass; they drank Schnapps, punked journalists, and had the best birthday party ever.
Citizens United
Nick Laird takes a long look at Claudia Rankine for the New York Review of Books: When we march under one banner for different causes, when we gather many different…
Lagos, Revisited
Alexis Okeowo expounds on Lagos for Granta—where it’s been, where they’re going, and why it’s future, our future, is dependent on its progress.
Where We’re Going, Where We’ve Been
Literary Hub has posted a gem of an essay from Saul Bellow; he riffs on literary tropes, the trajectory of the novel, and how, even if it’s gotten close, it’s never actually…
Those Kinds Of People are The Only People Here
Electric Literature posts a graduation speech from Vonnegut; he riffs on World War II, busboys, ambition, and suicide notes: A young woman told me a couple of years ago that…