A few years ago I was visiting my friend Roman. He asked me if I read The Believer. I told him I hadn’t heard of it. He silently reproved me, knowing that it would be right up my alley and be… more →
I Just Read About That...fictionadvocate wrote 1 day ago: At the risk of inciting DFW’s … more →
Paul wrote 1 week ago: A few years ago I was visiting my friend Roman. He asked me if I read The Believer. I told him I h … more →
Alexandra Sheppard wrote 2 weeks ago: A few months ago I had my photo taken by the lovely Mario for his photo project Someone Once Told M … more →
Dylan Byers wrote 2 weeks ago: Pico Iyer has written a brilliant but incomplete essay in this summer’s Lapham’s Quarter … more →
Eli wrote 3 weeks ago: Zadie Smith edits this one. It showed me the difference an editor makes in anthologies like this. In … more →
Qiana wrote 3 weeks ago: According to a senior White House aide, Michelle Obama and daughter, Malia, recently finished rea … more →
ed biblioklept wrote 1 month ago: And so well with the help of Jenny Sterlin’s narration and my handy-dandy portable mp3-playin … more →
choward wrote 1 month ago: Dave Eggers is hands down my favorite living writer*, who somehow manages to capture so adroitly the … more →
toniwhitmont wrote 1 month ago: Has anyone out there read An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay? Kay has just picked up the Orange Awa … more →
yasminsul wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been reading some of George Orwell’s letters lately (I do read other authors, hones … more →
annotationnation wrote 1 month ago: book by Zadie Smith annotation by Diane Sherlock The best thing about Zadie Smith’s first novel is … more →
Weston Cutter wrote 1 month ago: It’s been two years since McSweeney’s 23 came out—which I’d argue stro … more →
savidgereads wrote 1 month ago: So it starts, yes I am all finished with the utterly superb thriller/crime novel (which I will revie … more →
labiamajora wrote 2 months ago: I finally finished reading Zadie Smith’s On Beauty. My family was growing irritable having it … more →
butttub wrote 2 months ago: I put together a concert for Ghost Island! Actually, no I went on YouTube and picked videos with sin … more →
Lindsay wrote 2 months ago: This isn’t going to be a real post. Not really. I’ve started reading “On Beauty … more →
monkeyswedding wrote 2 months ago: Occasionally one finds that their various reading coincides so naturally that they begin to start sl … more →
Paul wrote 2 months ago: SOUNDTRACK: PEARL JAM-Vs. (1993). Ten was a solid record, and although it had diversity within it, o … more →
sarahoims390 wrote 3 months ago: Art effects us by our training, our upbringing. What art is, how we interpret it, almost inevitabl … more →