The novel and the political blogger
Do political bloggers tend to think about novels differently? At Kos, Jennifer Nix rediscovers literature with The Lazarus Project. Elsewhere: Are fiction readers more socially adroit?
Do political bloggers tend to think about novels differently? At Kos, Jennifer Nix rediscovers literature with The Lazarus Project. Elsewhere: Are fiction readers more socially adroit?
Apart from heavy drinking, if anything will make August in New York City palatable, it’s the ZZ Packer/New Stories from the South party that Algonquin and Paste magazine are throwing August 28 to benefit KARES, a New Orleans organization established to help artists and writers post-Katrina, and Housing Works. I’ll be emceeing. We’ll have trivia and prizes, brief readings from . . .
“I had a dream that someone told me writers and artists could sometimes couch-surf at the White House…. Miranda July and Eudora Welty had both done it.”
PW admires Alison Bechdel’s contribution to the forthcoming State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America.
The new issue of Words Without Borders concerns The Influence of Anxiety, and features writings on psychiatry.