‘The Word Pretty’ Is So Smart, It Hurts
On Elisa Gabbert’s brain-massaging essay collection.
Tag: essays
Everything About ‘Nothing Good’ Is Great
On Kristi Coulter’s essay collection, ‘Nothing Good Can Come from This.’
Jenny Boully Wrote a Book By Accident
A conversation with the Chicago author of ‘Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life.’
Rachel Z. Arndt Is Measuring the Universe
A conversation with the Chicago-based author of ‘Beyond Measure.’
Finally, a Knausgaard Book You Can Read on the Bus
Like last year’s Autumn, Winter — the second book in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s seasonal and autobiographical quartet — is a series ofContinue Reading
Jonathan Lethem on Writers, Disney Movies, and Cat Videos
The ineffable and prolific Jonathan Lethem has struck again, this time with his delightfully engaging second collection of essays More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers.
‘Ongoingness’ Teaches How to Live More by Writing Less
Diaries, Manguso suggests, invade our memories as much as pictures. So why keep one? Ongoingness reflects on that question.
The Horror of ‘Everything We Don’t Know’
The titular essay of Aaron Gilbreath’s debut collection of nonfiction, Everything We Don’t Know, concerns itself with the Fukushima disaster.Continue Reading
‘Unbearable Splendor’ Is a Literary White Dwarf Star
Look to your local bookstores, your libraries, for the incomparable new work by Sun Yung Shin, this Unbearable Splendor thatContinue Reading
‘Hogs Wild’ Harks Back to the Humor of Mark Twain
Isn’t it interesting to think that The New Yorker was once a pipe dream, teetering on the narrow arête between cultural import and collapse?
