Millions staffer Edan Lepucki contributed “Chorus” to Slate‘s Trump Story Project, an ongoing series of short fiction pieces written by contemporary authors.
“The chorus needs to be real to make this work.”
The Literary Orphan
Over at The New Inquiry, Alison Kinney writes on narrative opportunity, the true function of the literary orphan, and the rage of the real orphan. This moving piece by Matthew Salesses for The Millions on adoption and searching for oneself in a strange place is a nice complement.
On Leading the Tiger
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Goodbye, Gourmet
If the idea of Rachael Ray as queen of the food world shivers your timbers, read no further: Gourmet magazine, until now stewarded by the excellent Ruth Reichl, will cease publication with the November issue, the NY Times reports. Condé Nast also gave the axe to Cookie, Elegant Bride, and Modern Bride. The print media mass grave fills apace...
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Tuesday New Release Day: Hallberg, Goldman, Wolitzer, Packer, Butler, Connors, Fey and More
The gorgeous paperback edition of our own Garth Risk Hallberg's A Field Guide to the North American Family is now out. Also new and noteworthy are Francisco Goldman's New Yorker excerpted story of the death of his young wife Say Her Name, Meg Wolitzer's The Uncoupling, Ann Packer's Swim Back to Me, Blake Butler's There is No Year, and Phillip Connors's intriguing debut, Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. Elsewhere, we've got Tina Fey's raved about memoir Bossypants and a new and long in the works biography of Malcolm X, whose author, Manning Marable died just last week on the eve of the book's publication. Finally, now out in paperback is the fiction blockbuster The Help.
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