Last night Colson Whitehead, Sam Lipsyte, Amber Tamblyn, and Andrew McCarthy read to some New Yorkers at Public Assembly, simply because practically everyone likes The Rumpus. Here’s Specter Magazine’s editor, Mensah Demary, with the latest installment of #LitBeat.
#LitBeat: NYC <3’s The Rumpus back!
New Hardcovers with Paul Ingram
Watch beloved bookseller at Iowa City's Prairie Lights Paul Ingram talk about this season's best hardcovers. I loved getting his recommendations in person, and this is almost--almost!--as good. (via.)
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Child of Franco
Warning: There's another James Franco film coming your way. His latest literary adaptation is of Cormac McCarthy's Child of God. The first trailer features banjo, an ominous voiceover, an edgy Scott Haze, and surprisingly little Franco.
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New Release Date for JJS Book
John Jeremiah Sullivan’s new book, The Prime Minister of Paradise, now has a UK release date: June 9, 2016. Read our own Bill Morris’s review of Pulphead.
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What Would Atticus Do?
Harper Lee is suing her literary agent over royalties for To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Living in Letters
Recommended Reading: On the collected letters and lovers of Iris Murdoch.
A Murky Origin Story
"Their staff is always sharp, and they seem to cover politics more robustly now. But through the 1960s there were so many political trends they ignored, pretending to be focused on craft and art for art's sake." An interview with Joel Whitney about his forthcoming book Finks: How the C.I.A. Tricked the World's Best Writers, which tells the story of how the intelligence agency helped found The Paris Review. With this backstory in mind, you may read the journal's author interviews in an entirely new way.