By happy accident, the third issue of Brooklyn-based lit mag Armchair/Shotgun (which uses an anonymous submissions system) is composed entirely of female writers. Issues are available for online purchase. EDIT: Following our update, the publication put out a notice on how the “all-female-writers issue” issue came to be.
VIDA Shall Be Pleased
Pawnee Central
A theory of place in literature derived from Parks and Recreation? Why, Ploughshares blog, you’re too kind.
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The S Monster
ICYMI, J.J. Abrams (of Lost and Star Trek fame) will release a novel -- conceived by Abrams and written by Doug Dorst -- in October with the enigmatic title of S. Last month, he released the first half of a teaser trailer; this week, he released the second half.
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Well-Constructed
Recommended Reading: Sho Spaeth on Renata Adler’s After the Tall Timber.
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“Characters are Ciphers”
Peter Mendelsund writes for the Paris Review about how we see, or think we see, fictional characters. "Characters are ciphers. ... We are ever reviewing and reconsidering our mental portraits of characters in novels: amending them, backtracking to check on them, updating them when new information arises."
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Making a Documentary
Recommended Reading: This essay from The Rumpus on Netflix's Making a Murderer and "bad families."
Tuesday New Release Day: McEwan; Moore; Patchett; Tea; Jufresa; Wayne; Silver; Frangello; Gottlieb; Karp; Collins; Kleeman
Out this week: Nutshell by Ian McEwan; Jerusalem by Alan Moore; Commonwealth by Ann Patchett; Black Wave by Michelle Tea; Umami by Laia Jufresa; Loner by Teddy Wayne; Little Nothing by Marisa Silver; Every Kind of Wanting by Gina Frangello; Avid Reader: A Life by Robert Gottlieb; This Vast Southern Empire by Matthew Karp; When in French by Lauren Collins; and Intimations by Alexandra Kleeman. For more on these and other new titles, go read our Great Second-Half 2016 Book Preview.
The Happiest Meal
Do you want a book with your Happy Meal? McDonald's will replace Happy Meal toys with books for two weeks next month. Don't expect to pull out Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs with your fries, though. The books were created for McDonald's by Leo Burnett and discuss nutrition. Did they miss the irony?
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