Fancy a stroll? Flaneur, a new Berlin-based magazine, profiles one street per issue. It explores the culture, literature, people, and landmarks that make each street unique. The first is Berlin’s Kantstrasse. Pair with: Hyperreal Cartography, a tumblr of “real maps of places that exist but don’t.”
Street Smart
Pik-Shuen Fung Explores the Multiplicity of Experience
Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, Ghost Forest, and explains how seemingly disparate emotions play a big role in her fiction.
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Crossed Lines
In the latest issue of the LRB, Jenny Diski comes to the defense of Liz Jones, a Daily Mail columnist and spiritual sibling to the far-too-beautiful-to-live Samantha Brick. Her takeaway after reading a column that got Jones into hot water? Diski “couldn’t see” what the pilloried writer had done wrong.
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On Broken and Repaired Circuits
Another year, another year of Full Stop Features, and Peter Nowogrodzki is starting things off with a bang. In a thorough and engaging review, Nowogrodzki dives into Tan Lin’s miniature book The Patio and the Index.
Open City Grants
Open City, which is published by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, is awarding $5,000 grants to “talented Asian American emerging writers looking to hone their creative nonfiction skills by engaging directly with contemporary New York.” The application deadline is April 8.
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Everyone Came to Elaine’s
New York Magazine breaks down the 100+ framed book covers that bedecked the walls at the late, great literary hangout, Elaine’s. Selections range from Bob Newhart to Renata Adler to George Plimpton (natch).