Jofie Ferrari-Adler interviews Little, Brown’s Pat Strachan
Pat Strachan — editor to Marilynne Robinson and Grace Paley, among others — reminisces about New York publishing of yore. (Via.)
Pat Strachan — editor to Marilynne Robinson and Grace Paley, among others — reminisces about New York publishing of yore. (Via.)
Victor LaValle, a friend of a friend, is a great conversationalist and an even better writer, and in this brief video he makes me feel a little less like a jerk for shit-talking my parents* in my writing. LaValle’s next novel, a “contentious story about a man, a woman, and a monster baby,” is scheduled for publication in 2009. A . . .
Unexpected benefits of the Kindle: users can read otherwise out–of–print books (here, Theodora Keogh’s), & publishers can reissue quickly.
In the current VQR: Tom Bissell’s My Interview With the [NYC] Avenger. (It’s fiction; at first I thought I’d slept through 2005.)
“Maybe I should just give him a handjob, I thought. Maybe that will shut him up.” Janice Erlbaum’s bad date essay at Nerve is a beautiful thing.