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Susan Sontag, Heroes, Mentors, and related
Last month, the new generation indie e-bookstore, Emily Books, featured a deep, revealing extended profile of the writer Susan Sontag by her old friend Sigrid Nunez, Sempre Susan. Sontag was a kind of mentor to Nunez in Nunez’s early career. Like … Continue reading
Minna Proctor on Lydia Millet’s New Novel
from Bookforum The Transformers Novelist Lydia Millet homes in on the varieties of existential experience MINNA PROCTOR Butterflies flapping, according to students of chaos theory, can start typhoons. Carbon emissions make New York a city where tornadoes touch down. Social … Continue reading
Terrible, Horrible, Wonderful Mothers
A Conversation: Is There Anything Literary About Motherhood? Jenny Offill & Ceridwen Morris Discussions about motherhood are cluttered with logistics, dark nuances, and commiseration. They are frequently conducted under the punch-drunk fog of sleeplessness, grammar-addling distraction, and amazement. Discussions about … Continue reading
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Graber on Davenport: From TLR’s Vault
Poetry has a long half-life, and poets keep flourishing, getting older (very slightly) and better. So now that Kathleen Graber has been nominated for a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle award for her amazing collection, The … Continue reading
Re-Judgment Day: Who Should Have Won the 1960 NBAs?
At this year’s AWP conference in Washington DC last month, I attended a panel hosted by Ninth Letter, featuring four writers who had read the entire long list for the 1960 National Book Award in fiction in order to re-judge … Continue reading