An Excerpt from McSweeney’s Next Issue, Josephine Rowe
Illustration: Carson Murdach Do not adjust your set. What you see before you is an excerpt from the latest issue of McSweeney’s, our alluring, laid-back, westerly sister. Curiouser still, the McSweeney’s site has an excerpt from our new interview with Geoff Dyer.
Asymptote
Paris Review Daily - Blog, Writers, Poets, Artists - Paris Review
Donald Barthelme would’ve been, and should be, eighty-three today. It would be an exaggeration to say that I feel the absence of someone whom I never met—someone who died when I was three—but I do wonder, with something more than mere curiosity, what Barthelme would have made of the past twenty-odd years. These are decades I feel we’ve processed less acutely because he wasn’t there to fictionalize them: their surreal political flareups, their new technologies, their various zeitgeists and intellectual fads and dumb advertisements. Part of what I love about Barthelme’s stories is the way they traffic in cultural commentary without losing their intimacy, their humanity. But I’m losing the thread. My point is not to reveal a secret wish that Barthelme was my uncle.
Mothers News back issue collection
May 2010 - July 2013 click the pictures to access these issues (read online or download) via archive.org. PLEASE NOTE: Mothers News is not an online newspaper, and the following year's worth of issues will NOT be made available online. To read new issues you must subscribe, and have the physical paper mailed to you.
I was not born in English
Review 31 Home
Fiction Highlights: Review 31's Best Novels of 2015 by Review 31 With the year drawing to a close, we invited several Review 31 contributors and editors to select their literary highlights of 2015. Their recommendations ranged from the metafictions of Ben Lerner and Tom McCarthy to the personal and political vistas of Marilynne Robinson and Elena Ferrante, and works in translation by Han Kang and Nathalie Léger. [read full essay] A Responsibility Towards Reality
The Front Row
April 18, 2014 The Secrets of Godzilla My artistic career was ended by Godzilla—as a child monster-movie maniac, I stopped attending painting classes when the long-awaited film (the American version, of course, starring Raymond Burr) showed up on Saturday-morning television. So I take the weeklong run of the Burr-free 1954 Japanese-language original, which begins today at Film Forum, personally. I missed the 2004 screenings of the restoration, so this revival is a welcome chance to catch up with it, and the experience is surprising. The first surprise is that the original version, directed by Ishiro Honda, is not a kids’ movie, not a hectic teen goof, not a grindhouse shocker but a serious drama of politics, romance, and conscience (both civic and intimate).
George Orwell's domestic and political diary entries, posted 70 years to the day after they were written
Ballardian
SF Diggers (1966-68, beyond)
What is the Digger Archives? First time here? The Overview page explains who the Diggers were (are) and the intent of this site. The What's New page highlights additions to this web so returning visitors might check there first.
Albert Camus
