This Must Be The Place
Maggie O'Farrell
“There is a man. He’s standing on the back step, rolling a cigarette. The day is typically unstable, the garden lush and shining, the branches weighty with still-falling rain. There is a man and the man is me.”
My Mother, Monterey, and the Haunted Beauty of Aquariums
Lindsay Hatton on the Faded Beauty of Her Hometown
On the Journals of Famous Writers
Dustin Illingworth Eavesdrops on Flannery O'Connor, Susan Sontag, and More
The Grumpy Librarian: For Fans of Canadians and Enemies of Humor
In Which Short Fiction's Beloved Uncle is Left Out in the Cold
Five Books Making News This Week: D.C., The Internet, and Helen Gurley Brown
Jennifer Close, Virginia Heffernan, Brooke Hauser, and More
Maggie’s Plan
Rebecca Miller
“The kids remove their shoes and greet their mother with great affection. Maggie watches this as she removes her penny loafers. Justine is very tender with her mother. Another person (to the kids): I made you a nice snack and you are allowed to watch one single episode of something ghastly while eating it. But no fighting about what it is, Paul. Justine gets to choose.”
Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature
On the Ontology of a Stuffed Tiger and Finding the Whole World in a Comic
When an Internet Skeptic Takes to Twitter
Sven Birkerts on Contradiction and Tweeting Against the Tide
Brief History of a Terror Attack: The Day That Changed Argentina
Ilan Stavans on the 1994 Bombing of the AMIA
What Getting Published At 16 Taught Me About Becoming a Writer
Catherine Banner on the Privilege and Luck it Takes to Live the Writer's Life
Arcade
Drew Nellins Smith
“I saw people mentioning it in the personals online, but I didn’t know anything about it. I didn’t know places like that existed. In the Missed Connections, there were ads that made clear that men were having sexual encounters of some kind there, in what I pictured as a Wild West of promiscuity.”
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