Remember that essay I was writing last year about my ex-? I keep forgetting to say that it will be anthologized next year in a collection of doomed-relationship essays edited by my friend Michael Taeckens. Last I checked, the contributors included Kate Christensen, Junot Díaz, Gary Shteyngart, Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, Dana Rasso, Tayari Jones, Amanda Stern, Pasha Malla, Wendy McClure, T. . . .
PEN World Voices is the literary festival I most look forward to, so I’m sad to miss it. Fortunately, Metaxucafé & David Haglund are there.
“The people and events in this book are not entirely fictional.” Raymond Chandler suggested varying the usual novel disclaimers.
In the new Boldtype, A.M. Homes discusses the difference between writing fiction and non-.
Rick Moody throws a pie at a good-natured Dale Peck, for charity. (Peck has called Moody “the worst writer of his generation.”)