Hot on the heels of our own review of Brief Encounters with the Enemy, Full-Stop publishes an interview with Saïd Sayrafiezadeh. What makes it especially interesting, however, is that their interviewer is Scott Cheshire, who also wrote our review.
Brief Encounters with Sayrafiezadeh
On Yesterday’s Earthquake
In both pizza and geological terms, the East Coast is known for its thin crust.
Packer on Afghanistan
Another hip-hip for long-form journalism. George Packer's piece in the New Yorker on Richard Holbrooke and the Af-Pak War reminds one that some things -- complicated geopolitical matters, for example -- must be explored at length. Subscribers can read the full article in the digital edition here. Short of that, read Packer's assessment of the McChrystal Report on his blog.
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Cruel Months
Why is it "The Waste Land" and not "The Wasteland?" Poetry investigates.
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Feminist Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is almost as famous for being sampled on Beyoncé's latest album as she is for her novel Americanah. With that in mind, she discussed her writing process, hair blogs, and what feminism means to her in Elle. "It means that I am present in the world, and that I realize that there is a problem with the way we’ve constructed gender," she said. For more Adichie, read her 2013 Year in Reading post.
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Brillante
Is Alejandro Zambra the new great Latin American writer? James Wood thinks he is. In the latest New Yorker, he describes how Zambra’s new story collection alerted him to the writer’s oeuvre, going on to analyze all three of the writer’s novels in English. You could also read our 2011 interview with Zambra.
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