My intention in bringing Calvin Baker and Colson Whitehead together later this month is to facilitate a conversation between them on branding & freedom in the market economy, through the lens of their most recent novels, Dominion and Apex Hides the Hurt. Focusing on the stories and the way they are told will, I hope, keep us out of the . . .
The Smart Set is a weekly feature, compiled by Lauren Cerand, that usually appears Mondays at 12:30pm and highlights the best of the week to come. Special favor is given to New York’s independent booksellers and venues, and low-cost and free events. Please send details to lauren [at] maudnewton.com by the Thursday prior to publication, with the date in the . . .
Someone says: “Form? Nonsense!/ When shit is poured into crystal,/ Does the glass become less pure?” Kevin Kinsella translates seven Russian poems by Sasha Chernyi.
Is the airport an unlikely place to be gripped by nostalgia? Walking off a plane into DFW yesterday for the first time in more than 15 years, I was so overcome with memories of walking through terminals, parting from my grandmother after long summer visits, I could barely breathe. Now I’m in Austin, and am busy lying around in my . . .
Baudrillard’s writings of the last twenty years tended to recycle ideas from his early work, says Scott McLemee. “But celebrity is a full-time job,” after all.