“If you’ve ever had the misfortune of writing a book, or knowing someone who has, you’ll relate to this,” says Matthew Yglesias. (Via.) The video made the rounds ages ago, but it’s new to me. Have a great weekend, everybody.
My appreciation of Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger is up at NPR. Here’s an excerpt: For a writer so gifted at conjuring worlds in which unspoken longings seem to manifest themselves as otherworldly phenomena, British novelist Sarah Waters is surprisingly dismissive of her own superstitions, which she sees as symptomatic of her lower-middle-class origins. Her grandparents worked as servants, her . . .
PEN America gathers a collection of Tiananmen Square links to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre.
China Miéville, on the Buffy remake: “How about we don’t go and see it and don’t talk about it incessantly?… [I]t’s just shit.” (Via.)
Granta’s new fiction issue includes work by John Banville, Amy Bloom, Ha Jin, Helen Simpson, & others.