“I was making a film about a local author when I met Harry Crews. He was not my subject; he was my subject’s inspiration. ‘You oughta put a camera on this guy,’ the local author urged.” The origins of Gary Hawkins’ film about Harry Crews.
I took a look back at Mary McCarthy’s dissertation-worthy The Group for Bookforum’s summer Money issue. Also, if you’ve never seen McCarthy’s Paris Review interview (with a young Elisabeth Sifton!), it’s well worth your time.
Tomorrow night at McNally Jackson, I’ll have the great pleasure of interviewing Kate Christensen, a friend whose writing I loved even before I came to love her, about her latest novel, The Astral. We spoke about the book (and male muses and inner dicks) last year at The Awl. This will be a continuation of that conversation. “It’s been two . . .
In Berlin the week before last, my friend Jessa mentioned that people on public transit there are completely okay with staring. It’s not just fine to stare, she said; it’s expected. If you don’t look at people, you’re the weird one. For me, longtime rider of the New York City subway that I am, this idea was hard to wrap . . .