Recommended Listening: Bonnie Jo Campbell reads her poems “Teakettle” and “Scribblers” for The Southern Review’s podcast.
“This is how we trace our paths back to the source of trouble.”
“Tongue-in-Cheek Tocqueville”
"'So your idea is to drive across America and write about it without talking to a single American?' 'Yes.'" Karl Ove Knausgaard travels North America as “a tongue-in-cheek Tocqueville” for the New York Times Magazine. Pair with his piece for The Millions, "The View from My Window is a Constant Reminder," and with Jonathan Callahan's reading of Knausgaard's My Struggle.
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From the Department of Prehistory
This week in palaeontology: "...how did 30-ton animals larger than four-story buildings have sex?"
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David Rees’s New Television Show
Get Your War On creator and How to Sharpen Pencils author David Rees was recently interviewed about his new show on the National Geographic channel. The premise behind the new venture is simple: “anything in the world that seems like there’s nothing to learn about, that’s what we want to learn about.”
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Book Pirates
The American author is dead, long live the American author! At the New York Times, a eulogy.
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Bookstore MFA
"There’s something about shopping for books where you’re open for anything. You’re faced with a wall of books, and you don’t know anything about most of them. At some point, it’s just you and the poems." Carl Adamshick talks with the Los Angeles Review of Books about Powell's and the "bookstore MFA." Pair with our own Janet Potter's essay on loving bookshops.
Interview with Pinckney Benedict
At The Rumpus, an engaging interview with Pinckney Benedict, author of Town Smokes and Miracle Boy and Other Stories, and one-time writing apprentice under Joyce Carol Oates.
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