Chicana Fabulosa
Michele Serros passed away from cancer earlier this year, but her influence—and her infectiousness—lives through just about everyone/thing/place she encountered; Jessica Langlois shares a glimpse of that at the Los…
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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.
Kinky Reggae
Over at the New York Review of Books, Luc Sante riffs on living through reggae in the late seventies: I bought the record at the time it was on the…
Believe Me
Over at NYT Magazine, Etgar Keret slips us an essay on teaching his son the art of forgiveness: The minute we got into the taxi, I had a bad feeling.…
Our Own Private Lives
Daniel Alarcón interviews Alejandro Zambra for BOMB Magazine; among other things, they touch on William Carlos Williams, Chile, bonsai trees, dictators, and beautiful notebooks.
The Secrets of the Past
Over at the New Yorker, a journalist returns to what was almost the last town he ever reported on.
Now and Then
At the Telegraph, Mario Vargas Llosa drops some wisdom on the state of literature: “I remember when I was young,” he continues, “to have a literary or artistic vocation was…
Everybody’s Out of Town
The Village Voice revisits Ellen Willis’s trip out of New York and into herself. Among other quips, Willis offers that “on a long bus trip, the different between a tolerable ride…
Multilingual Farce
David Samuels fact checks Herman Melville down at Lapham’s Quarterly: Who Herman Melville was and what he actually thought about anything are altogether unsatisfying questions that have never been answered…
Off the Island
Marlon James writes about leaving home for the New York Times Magazine: In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them. By now, the person I created in…
Skipping Tracks
Laura van den Berg gifts us a playlist over at Electric Literature, composed of songs she listened to while writing Find Me; among other gems, she’s into Grizzly Bear, Hot…
Keeping Up with Cortázar
Over at the Times, Hugo Passarello chronicles Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch through a revolving photo essay; in his own way, Passarello bridges the gap between written text and daily living (or at…