Recommended Reading: “World That Owes” by Delaney Nolan.
“I’ll sell it all.”
“Once on This Island”
“I thought it was going to be a short novel, that it was one person’s story. But I was wrong, because history is always shaping everything.” The New York Times reviews Marlon James's latest novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings, which we covered in our "Great Second-Half 2014 Book Preview."
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The Literary Rumor Mill
From Flavorwire, a look at fascinating literary rumors, from Mark Twain's premature death to Stephen King's supposed blindness.
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The Miserable Wonderfulness of M. Houellebecq
The second issue of Chicago's crackerjack The Point, having thrown caution to the wind, tackles the prickly genius of Michel Houellebecq: "Houellebecq has published four novels, all of them bitter and miserable."
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The Investigation of Feeling
Recommended Listening: Poet Rachel Zucker speaks with Citizen author Claudia Rankine about willed ignorance and the known unknown.
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