Whenever you feel bad, remember: Tessa Hadley didn’t believe in her work for twenty years.
Now That’s a Hiatus
Dispatches from Guangzhou
Take a vicarious trip to China via a special issue of Ninth Letter, a literary and arts journal published by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Including work by authors Madelaine Thien and Khaled Al Khamissi, the issue grew out of a residency sponsored by Sun Yat-sen University's Center for English-language Creative Writing, the only such department of its kind in that country. Pair with this piece by Casey Walker about writing his novel Last Days in Shanghai, which is set in the boomtown of today's new China.
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Revolutionary Word
Lewis Lapham, namesake and founder of Lapham's Quarterly, has compiled a "revolutionary reading list."