“For obit writers, the whole world is necessarily divided into the dead and the pre-dead. That’s all there is.” The Paris Review interviews Margalit Fox, a senior writer for The New York Times, on the complicated art of obituaries.
The Dead and the Pre-Dead
A Midnight Literary Meal
Looking for a new literary magazine to submit to? Check out Midnight Breakfast. The Rumpus's Rebecca Rubenstein edits the online free literary magazine, which is looking for fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and art that will "spark a conversation." The first issue includes a Jason Diamond coming-of-age essay and a short story by Matthew Salesses.
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Tweeting with Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan has a new story, "Black Box," which is being published in ten installments over the New Yorker Fiction Twitter feed. Beginning last night at 8pm EST, and the story continues tonight at the same time.
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Write What You Experience
The age old debate: experience versus aesthetics, the real world versus the MFA world.
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Ireland’s Poet President
Did you know the recently elected president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, is actually a noted poet? Though the Guardian's own Carol Rumens would disagree.
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The Fall of “Man”
In The Age of The Crisis of Man, a new book by n + 1 co-founder and editor Mark Greif, the author examines the life and death of the concept of “man,” aka a unified humankind that could be said to suffer from particular conflicts. It was born in the thirties, with the rise of Fascism, but persisted for decades, eventually giving way to a more diversified view of humanity. In Tablet, Adam Kirsch dives into Greif’s arguments.
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