“Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people.” Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen: An American Lyric, is interviewed over at The Guardian on everything from Serena Williams to her emotionally volatile book signings to the inescapability of racism.
My Life You’re Writing
More on Banville
Yesterday I pointed out that John Banville wrote a new Philip Marlowe novel under the pen name Benjamin Black. If you’re a fan of Banville -- and you live in LA -- you can hear him talk about the book this Thursday at Sundance Cinemas.
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Trystero Coffee
At Jacket Copy, Carolyn Kellogg has coffee with Thomas Pynchon--well, not exactly...
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Internet Tendency, Redesigned
The charmingly lo-fi McSweeney's website gets a redesign and manages to stay charmingly lo-fi.
Tuesday New Release Day: Didion, Freud, Obreht
This week's big book release is Joan Didion's memoir Blue Nights. Also out is Esther Freud's Lucky Break and new in paperback, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife (our review).
Even If You Lose, You Win
The deadline for BOMB's poetry contest -- judged by Leaving the Atocha Station author Ben Lerner! -- is April 16th. The $20 submission fee should be pretty palatable to everyone because it comes with a subscription to the magazine.