Notable Online: 3/28–4/3
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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...more“Are we going to try to restore our country to the condition it was in before, or we going to try to imagine something better?”
...moreSaturday 3/18: Lisa Robertson and Uljana Wolf join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 3/19: Michelle Hogmire, Edward Barkin, Claudia Summers, and Matt Basillere celebrate contributions to KGB Bar Lit. KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free. Ariel Francisco, Sally Wen Mao, Jayson P. Smith, Kymani M. Jade, Taylor Lannamann, Glynn Pogue, Halley Furlong-Mitchell, […]
...moreOn a technical level, it is possible to write a perfect crime novel. You might say Black Wings Has My Angel is beyond perfection. At Vulture, Christian Lorentzen explains why a 1953 heist novel is a classic of 20th-century noir.
...moreOn the eve of a new biopic and on the long tail of posthumous publishing and popularization—Christian Lorentzen takes a long, compassionate, critical look at David Foster Wallace and on the ways in which a prolific writer gets written into the public memory—as intellectual behemoth, creative luminary, contemptuous snob, major depressive, motivational speaker: A writer who courted […]
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