Electric Literature produces videos for some of the fiction that appears in the magazine. A handful are trailers of one kind or another, but most are “single-sentence animations” consisting of brief clips inspired by a contributor’s favorite sentence from his or her own story. The one above — my favorite so far — centers on a line from Michael Cunningham’s . . .
Bookmarked for later reading: From Thomas Aquinas and John the Baptist to cellular automata and intelligent design: How God taught us planning, and where theology went wrong.
The latest Tin House includes an interview with Amélie Nothomb, fiction from Nothomb and Keith Lee Morris, Dani Shapiro on Ellen Miller, and A.N. Devers on María Louisa Bombal.
The Latin word classicus, from which “classic” derives, was closely related to ancient Rome’s hierarchy of wealth, but the term was born problematic.