Here’s a double shot of Recommended Reading courtesy of Granta: Open City author Teju Cole on going blind, and Book of Clouds author Chloe Aridjis on Soviet-era cosmonauts.
Double Shot of Granta
The Future Is Now
Back in 2013, Ted Gioia wrote a piece for The Millions about an old sci-fi novel that correctly predicted the future. Since then, he’s embarked on an ambitious project that expands on his interest in sci-fi, exploring how the most radical sci-fi writers of the sixties paved the way for much of modern fiction. As he puts it, “I focus on this era in the history of sci-fi because it laid the groundwork for one of the most important developments in current-day fiction."
Chris Loves Dick
Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon have been cast as Chris and Dick in the television adaptation of Year in Reading alumna Chris Kraus’s beloved book I Love Dick. Pair with this Millions piece on literary magazines in film and TV.
Touring The Third Hotel
"I thought quite a lot about the vocabulary of tourism, the kinds of desires that vocabulary seems designed to ignite, and the promises made, and how those promises change or vanish altogether depending on who you are." The Paris Review interviews Laura van den Berg about writing, tourism, and her new novel, The Third Hotel. From our archives: our 2015 interview with van den Berg.
We Can’t Wait to Compare It to Its British Version
Every now and again, book designers allow themselves a little fun. This is one of those times. Behold David High's cheeky cover for Florence Williams' Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, out this May from W. W. Norton & Co. (via)
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Thou thing of no bowels thou!
Behold the Shakespearean insult generator, thou globe of sinful continents.
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Blind Submissions
The editors of Apogee Journal have reserved themselves the right not to read submissions blindly. As they explain it, "Blind submissions don’t actually protect writers from the existing prejudices of editors, and they alone do not contribute to editors reading inclusively."
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