Recommended Reading: The Oxford American just unlocked David Ramsey’s 2008 piece on “How Lil Wayne helped me survive my first year teaching in New Orleans.”
Born in New Orleans, raised in New Orleans
“I have always wondered.”
John Jeremiah Sullivan’s "Diary" for the Financial Times features the Mars Curiosity, Quaker school songs, and all sorts of family bonding.
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Chris Adrian’s Take on Shakespeare
Chris Adrian's pedigree is impressive: former Harvard Divinity student; Iowa Writer's Workshop graduate; current fellow in UCSF's pediatric hematology/oncology department; lifelong fan of Shakespeare. He's also found time to appear in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and McSweeney's. Great Night, his latest novel, imaginatively reboots A Midsummer Night's Dream by setting it in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park. Here's some footage of him reading an excerpt at last month's FSG Reading Series.
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To the Stars and Beyond
Very exciting news for space nerds: NASA just opened its research library to the public for free. Pair with our suggestions for the best fiction to send into space.
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Shitty Mentor Subgenre
Is it just a kind of literary Stockholm Syndrome? This essay from Electric Literature explores why writing students idolize such horrible mentors. For more on what it means to be a mentor, here’s an essay from The Millions.
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