Blog

Bender fiction

Aimee Bender really knows how to create a mood. A new story, “Faces,” appears in the current (print) Paris Review.

Read more



Crispin on Gallant

Mavis Gallant’s heroines “are the awkward, the hopeless, the immature, the ones on the outside of womanhood looking in.”

Read more



Ways of drawing

“Drawing now involves subtracting as much as adding.” John Berger on “The Company of Drawings” in the latest Harper’s. (Subscription req’d.)

Read more



Jacket Copy reviews

David Ulin praises Owen Hill’s second Blackburn mystery, The Incredible Double, in a new review series at Jacket Copy.

Read more



Highsmith day

On Patricia Highsmith’s birthday, Joan Schenkar’s The Talented Miss Highsmith is nominated for an Edgar. (Via.)

Read more



Newsletter Signup

For regular updates, subscribe to my free newsletter.

Newsletter

You might want to subscribe to my free Substack newsletter, Ancestor Trouble, if the name makes intuitive sense to you.