Sympathy for These Devils
Drug addicts, pimps, whores, misogynists, hoodlums… all the usual suspects inhabit the stories in Irvine Welsh’s new collection.The unappetizing title of Reheated Cabbage, a collection of stories from...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s been a real humdinger of a week at Rumpus Books. Come see what we have.This week, Rumpus Books published reviews of two short story collections, a book of poetry, and two novels.Poems for the...
View ArticleSpring Break is Over, Bitches
Last week, on my Facebook News Feed, this message from Harmony Korine, director of Spring Breakers (2013), popped up:Like what the F$$$ so some guy decided to make spring breakers two without mine our...
View ArticleThe Uncomfortable Shock of Recognition
Over at the Guardian, Scottish author Irvine Welsh makes a case for Bret Easton Ellis’s often reviled, always controversial American Psycho as a modern classic. Welsh—the author of his own modern...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 2/7–2/13
Saturday 2/7: Omar Berrada, Huge Garcia Manriquez, Isabelle Garron, Jen Hofer, John Keene, Sarah Riggs, James Sherry, Stacy Szymaszek, Matvei Yankelevich and others celebrate Litmus Press. Southfirst,...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 2/23–3/1
Saturday 2/23: Eileen Myles and Korakrit Arunanondchai join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 2/24: Teresa Carmody, Ru Freeman, Laura McCarty, Larissa Shmailo, Katherine Vaz, and...
View ArticleNotable Portland: 2/28–3/6
Thursday 2/28: The Reed College Visiting Writers Series welcomes Safiya Sinclair, author of Cannibal, to read from her latest work and discuss the craft of writing. Eliot Hall Chapel, 6:30 p.m., free....
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles: 3/4–3/10
Monday 3/4: Robert Mnookin discusses and signs The Jewish American Paradox, in conversation with Rabbi John Rosove. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. David Wallace-Wells discusses and signs The...
View ArticleSympathy for These Devils
Drug addicts, pimps, whores, misogynists, hoodlums… all the usual suspects inhabit the stories in Irvine Welsh’s new collection. The unappetizing title of Reheated Cabbage, a collection of stories from...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s been a real humdinger of a week at Rumpus Books. Come see what we have. This week, Rumpus Books published reviews of two short story collections, a book of poetry, and two novels. Poems for the...
View ArticleSpring Break is Over, Bitches
Last week, on my Facebook News Feed, this message from Harmony Korine, director of Spring Breakers (2013), popped up: Like what the F$$$ so some guy decided to make spring breakers two without mine our...
View ArticleThe Uncomfortable Shock of Recognition
Over at the Guardian, Scottish author Irvine Welsh makes a case for Bret Easton Ellis’s often reviled, always controversial American Psycho as a modern classic. Welsh—the author of his own modern...
View ArticleNotable NYC: 2/7–2/13
Saturday 2/7: Omar Berrada, Huge Garcia Manriquez, Isabelle Garron, Jen Hofer, John Keene, Sarah Riggs, James Sherry, Stacy Szymaszek, Matvei Yankelevich and others celebrate Litmus Press. Southfirst,...
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