In 2004, Katherine Lanpher gave up her radio gig in Minneapolis and moved to Manhattan to serve as co-host of The Al Franken Show. A year and a half later she quit the show to write Leap Days, a memoir about leaving behind the life she knew and making a home in New York City. Nowadays, among other things, she . . .
My friend Kevin Kinsella tends to wind up at the center of strange events and unfortunate misunderstandings that he, to his knowledge, has done nothing to invite upon himself. (I can relate.) So his passion for Russian literature shouldn’t come as a surprise. A few months ago he interviewed novelist Anya Ulinich. More recently, Green Integer Press published his translation . . .
I’ve yet to read Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year in full, but several excerpts are available online.
All hail Grace Paley’s candor: “Look, you’re really a writer. You’re really doing it. You don’t need this class.”
Watch a 2000-era Vonnegut urge people to “practice art, no matter how badly, because it’s known to make a soul grow.”