Chris Adrian on tattoos, dogs, uncleanliness, and his ex-boyfriend
The enormously talented Chris Adrian was very private at U.F., so much so that reading his personal essays feels a little bit like spying.
The enormously talented Chris Adrian was very private at U.F., so much so that reading his personal essays feels a little bit like spying.
Playboy is serializing Denis Johnson’s next novel, Nobody Move, in four installments. The L.A. Times’ David Ulin covers them for Jacket Copy starting Monday.
My buddy Mark Sarvas is reading from his novel Harry Revised today (Saturday) at Books & Books, my hometown independent bookstore, and the place my mom took me in my teens when she announced I was old enough to “stop reading garbage.” So much has been said about the store and its founder, Miami Book Fair mastermind Mitchell Kaplan, that . . .
Today in crackpot science: Geocentrists believe the Bible proves the earth really is the center of the universe. (Thanks, John.)
Before her death, Dorothy Parker claimed to have advances from five different publishers for books that she had no intention of writing.