My appreciation of Samantha Peale’s The American Painter Emma Dial is up at NPR. Young artists often mistake proximity to the art world for the act of creation itself. Nowhere is this error more common than in New York City, where being able to paint and make rent is a question of finding “the right imbalance” between art and paying . . .
A contributor to Dennis Cooper’s blog reads Paradise Lost for clues about its angels’ sexual practices. (Via.)
When Bookforum relaunched its website recently, the editors introduced my favorite feature: an idiosyncratic collection of writers’ syllabi on various topics. Mine is devoted to doubt. The narrator of my novel in progress has a storefront preacher mother and a family legacy of extremism that seem, the more she struggles against them, destined to determine her future. While her life . . .
Longtime agent Betsy Lerner was haunted recently by a response she received to a rejection letter.
Tin House celebrates ten years of print with a new site, new issue, & new blog.