Recommended Reading: DIAGRAM 16.6.
It’s lit
A Hypothetical Country
You never need an excuse to read new words written by Edwidge Danticat, but in case you did, here's an excerpt from her introduction to the forthcoming edition of James Baldwin's classic, semi-autobiographical novel Go Tell It On A Mountain.
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A Narrative Made Up of Many Narratives
Elizabeth Karp-Evans interviews How to Read a Novelist author John Freeman about editing, American narratives, and his goals for Freeman’s.
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The Wounded Women
"Women writers who kill themselves—are somehow perpetually on display, or even on trial. They must answer for their art and their final act against the world and their husbands and children, born and unborn," Kevin Kanarek said in a Rumpus interview about his mother, Pamela Moore. Her 1956 novel, Chocolates For Breakfast, has just been reissued. Pair with: Alison Balaskovits' post on VICE's infamous fashion editorial on the suicides of famous women writers.
The Cosmonaut
Conrad Aiken's tombstone reads: "Cosmos Mariner — Destination Unknown." Which raises the question: what exactly does this epitaph say about the poet's work? In the LA Times, an argument that Aiken deserves a reappraisal.