In both pizza and geological terms, the East Coast is known for its thin crust.
On Yesterday’s Earthquake
Poetry in a Box
Recommended Reading: On poetry about poem-making and the poetics of assemblage.
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‘I’m going to begin by telling you about Miss Frost.’
Simon & Schuster has posted an excerpt of John Irving's forthcoming novel In One Person.
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Reviews of Tom McCarthy’s C
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Hard to Define
"Every single book or painting or piece of music exists and we take from it what we need and love and shape it into another narrative that goes out into the world or stays within us, so it’s this great thing of one narrative piling onto the next. It’s hard to define." Miriam Toews talks with The Rumpus about her novel All My Puny Sorrows and the distinctions, or lack thereof, between autobiography and fiction.
Tracy Morgan’s Brother From Another Mother
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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