Kate Christensen’s Trouble playlist
“I’m standing in the middle of life/With my past behind me…” Kate Christensen’s writing soundtrack includes Learning to Crawl.
“I’m standing in the middle of life/With my past behind me…” Kate Christensen’s writing soundtrack includes Learning to Crawl.
I’m only now learning that Ellen Miller, author of the amazing ’90s junkie novel Like Being Killed, died of a heart attack on December 23 at the age of forty-one. When Ken Foster announced the terrible news a couple weeks ago, he quoted the book’s opening: We crowded around the rickety kitchen table, predicting how each of us would die. . . .
Jill Lepore recalls the first time newspapers were dying, in 1765, after Parliament levied a stamp tax on every printed page in the colonies.
Granta supplements its “Fathers” issue — which includes Lethem, Bechdel, & many more — with a brief piece from Jim Shepard.
The Times‘ Larry Rohter reports on the controversy that has erupted over the details of Roberto Bolaño’s life story. Bolaño himself fostered the idea, enthusiastically embraced by U.S. critics and readers, that he had a heroin habit. But his widow and agent dispute this detail, as do Latin American critics. Julio Ortega, a Peruvian scholar, charged in Spain’s leading daily . . .