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I've probably read more about Barbara Loden and the feature film she wrote and directed, Wanda, than any other actress and movie that I've never actually seen. Next month, our friends at Dorothy are publishing a striking new book by Nathalie Léger that won the 2012 Prix du Livre Inter. Eimear McBride calls it "inventive and affecting," and it absolutely is. It's a book that creeps up on you in a very sudden, surprising way.
Your weekly report on all the cultural news that doesn't matter.
For your reading (and listening) pleasure, I reached out to our Street Team members to compile playlists inspired by Scott McClanahan and Ricardo Cavolo's The Incantations of Daniel Johnston. Whether you listen while you read, or after, is up to you. Check em' out!
Known as Sakte-TV in Norway, Slow Television (Slow TV) is essentially a "marathon" program airing ordinary life events in real time. This makes Reality TV as we (Americans) know it, seem like total bullshit.
Werner Herzog responding to whether he did in fact threaten to shoot Klaus Kinski on the set of Aguirre, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
When he's not rubbing shoulders with Beyonce or eating french fries, Columbus native, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib, is an acclaimed poet, essayist, and cultural critic.
September 2, 2016 edition. Get ready for your weekend.
It sounds like a long way off now, but next July 2017 we will publish one of the more unsettling manuscripts to come across my desk. For the first time ever, Found Audio presents a complete transcription of the mysterious audio recordings of an unnamed adventure journalist and his decades-long pursuit of the Borgesian "City of Dreams," alongside analysis from audio expert Amrapali Anna Singh.
We've been watching HBO's new series, The Night Of, which began as a slow-drip police procedural and evolved into a provocative noir mystery. The show was spearheaded by Richard Price, who wrote for The Wire, but is best known as a novelist...
A biting quote from The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney, available from the good folks at Coffee House Press.
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Introduction by Brett Gregory: Zachary Pace is the author of I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays about the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am. This book is special. It's accessible and informative, yes, but it's... Read more →
On January 23, 2024, we're thrilled to release Zachary Pace's debut book, I Sing to Use the Waiting: A Collection of Essays About the Women Singers Who've Made Me Who I Am. With remarkable grace, candor, and a poet’s ear... Read more →
We're tremendously excited to share the news that on September 12, 2023, we will be publishing Landscapes, a debut novel by Christine Lai that brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal.In the English... Read more →