Solnit, interviewed
A great refuser of genre: Benjamin Cohen talks with the brilliant Rebecca Solnit (A Paradise Built in Hell) for The Believer.
A great refuser of genre: Benjamin Cohen talks with the brilliant Rebecca Solnit (A Paradise Built in Hell) for The Believer.
The day after Randa Jarrar’s father disowned her over her novel, A Map of Home, she won the Arab American Book Award. (Via.)
The work of Cuban writer Guillermo Rosales, who arrived in Miami during Mariel and killed himself in 1993, is being reissued.
Stephen Gyllenhaal is adapting Phil Campbell’s Zioncheck for President. He was drawn to the book’s weird moments.
Apparently someone forgot to inform my neighborhood that reading is dying. On my way home tonight, I came upon a small crowd that had assembled to dig through the library’s recycling. “Are those novels?” the woman walking next to me asked, her voice rising excitedly, as she stopped to pick through the books herself. Now I’m sitting in my apartment, . . .