Following up on our look at the German literary landscape, Three Percent publishes a glowing review of Alina Bronsky‘s Broken Glass Park.
More Praise for Alina Bronsky
Runways for Days
"I took my son to Paris fashion week, and all I got was a profound understanding of who he is, what he wants to do with his life, and how it feels to watch a grown man stride down a runway wearing shaggy yellow Muppet pants." Michael Chabon writes a beautiful piece for GQ about going couturing with his son, Abraham. Pair with yesterday's essay by R. J. Hernández on fashion in literary fiction.
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Recommended Reading: Jesmyn Ward
Recommended Reading: An excerpt from Jesmyn Ward's new memoir, Men We Reaped. "This is the summer of the year 2000. This is the last summer that I will spend with my brother. This is the heart. This is. Every day, this is." Pair with: The New York Times profile of Ward.
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The Underground Railroad: The Series
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins plans to adapt Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad as a limited-run series. In his review of the novel for our site last year, Greg Walklin gushed that "Whitehead’s brilliance is on constant display."
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Calling All Foer-Besotted 10-Year-Olds
Spotted on the streets of New York: a casting call for a "10-13 year old Caucasian male" to play protagonist Oskar Schell in Stephen Daldry's upcoming film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Notable Goyim Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock are attached to the project, as Oskar's parents.
Hinchas Nuevos
Hinchas de Poesía, which is “a digital codex of contemporary Pan-American writing,” has just released their 11th issue, and it’s certainly worth checking out.
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The Chart Artist
Ben Greenman, New Yorker editor, author, chart artist? The Observer explains.
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