“We learn how to be mad, the same way we learn how to be male or female, or how we learn how to participate in society.” On fads and mental illness.
The Therapy Fads
Brooklyn Boys I
His new novel, Sunset Park, finds Paul Auster leaving behind the metafictional gamesmanship of his recent work for a look at our new Age of Austerity. This week, he talks to The L Magazine about the neighborhood from which it takes its title and inspiration…
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Preview Michelle Tea
At McSweeney’s, preview Michelle Tea’s Castle on the River Vistula, the final installment of her Chelsea trilogy. You could also check out our piece on contemporary YA fiction and talk therapy.
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The Paris Review Interviews Ursula K. Le Guin
One year after The Millions interviewed Ursula K. Le Guin, the author is interviewed by The Paris Review. Causation or correlation: you decide.
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Barack’s Book Club
George Pelecanos is the latest worthy writer to get the Obama bump.
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A Proofreader’s Value Summed Up
Jim Romenesko’s page dedicated to humorous typos might be the best Pinterest board ever created.
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The aMTrAk Residency
Remember that time Amtrak offered a 10-day train residency, and the internet experienced a collective freakout because trains are literary catnip, and then we found out it was kind of a scam? Barnard Zine Library does, too. In honor of that cultural moment, they recently sponsored an “MTA Residency” that, while less glamorous, has already yielded beautiful work.
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