June 27, 2025
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- Carey Baraka on authorship, mother tongues, and the dominance of English as a global language.
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The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome
Serge Brussolo, translated by Edward Gauvin
“Getting in had been accomplished with extraordinary consistency—no loss of control—and in his delight, he passed up a glance at his depth gauge. The pill had made his mouth pasty and numbed the underside of his tongue. To double-check action of the drug, he slammed the big key on a showcase full of necklaces.”
Cheats, Liars, and Madmen: “New York Values” and Other Lines
The Sixth Republican Debate: A Spinglish-English Translation
Interview with a Bookstore: Kramerbooks & Afterwords
In Which a Bookstore Compares Itself to a Hyena
The Happy Marriage
Tahar Ben Jelloun, trans. André Naffis-Sahely
"By the mid-1980s, the painter still hadn’t put down roots anywhere. He never kept the same studio for more than a few months, traveled without any luggage, and most of the time he’d been happy to work with only a notebook and pencils for his sketches."
Four Personality Types That Will Derail Your Literary Event
Or, Some Highly Subjective Advice on What Makes for a Good Panel
The Nest
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
"As the rest of the guests wandered the deck of the beach club under an early-evening mid-summer sky, taking pinched, appraising sips of their cocktails to gauge if the bartenders were using the top-shelf stuff and balancing tiny crab cakes on paper napkins while saying appropriate things about how they’d really lucked out with the weather because the humidity would be back tomorrow, or murmuring inappropriate things about the bride’s too-tight satin dress, wondering if the spilling cleavage was due to bad tailoring or poor taste (a look as their own daughters might say) or an unexpected weight gain, winking and making tired jokes about exchanging toasters for diapers, Leo Plumb left his cousin’s wedding with one of the waitresses."
Under the Harrow
Flynn Berry
"A woman is missing in the East Riding. She vanished from Hedon, near the village where we grew up. When Rachel learns of the disappearance, she’ll think it’s him."
Girls On Fire
Robin Wasserman
"They finally found the body on a Sunday night, sometime between 60 Minutes and Married with Children. Probably closer to Andy Rooney than Al Bundy, because it would have taken some time for the news, even news like this, to travel."
My First Writing Job: Copyboy at the Daily News
Warren Adler Remembers the Heyday of Newsprint in America
A Brief History of Book Illustration
Are We At the Start of Another Golden Age for Image/Text Collaboration?
“The Arab world is, demographically speaking, a very young region: close to two thirds of the population in the Arab countries is under the age of twenty-five (in the United States, the ratio is reversed).”
William Gibson: On Phones, Fiction, and the End of the World
The Author of Neuromancer in conversation with Paul Holdengraber
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