In a Grantland interview with Rafe Bartholomew, Don DeLillo talks Underworld, baseball, and Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ‘Round the World.”
Bartholomew, DeLillo, Thomson
The Illustrated Giant
Recommended reading: Horn! reviews The Buried Giant for The Rumpus. Pair with our own Lydia Kiesling's take on the novel here.
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Some New Releases: Kingsolver, Pynchon, Plath
Today arrives Barbara Kingsolver's latest, Lacuna, "an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover." Also out are a couple more of those nifty "Olive Editions" from HarperCollins, this time of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Update: There's a new edition of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation too.
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Beginner’s Luck
“Our great poet forever has one foot on Mount Parnassus and the other in the rue Quincampoix,” the Wall Street of eighteenth-century Paris. On how Voltaire outsmarted one of the earliest lotteries and made a fortune. Also check out how Goethe became an amateur auction theorist.
Ashbery Goes Digital
"Of all the literary genres, poetry has proved the most resistant to digital technology, not for stodgy cultural reasons but for tricky mechanical ones." Looks like that might be changing, however, as Open Road releases Flow Chart, Your Name Here and 15 other John Ashbery digital poetry collections.
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With Help from Nicky
Recommended Reading: Joel Landmine’s Nervous Breakdown self-interview.
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Living in Letters
Recommended Reading: On the collected letters and lovers of Iris Murdoch.
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