My friend Maaza Mengiste extols the virtues of Phil LaMarche’s first novel so passionately that I asked her to jot down some quick impressions in advance of the Debut Lit reading she’s hosting on Saturday night at KGB. Here’s what she sent. The title of Phil LaMarche’s American Youth is as spare, and ultimately as loaded, as his prose. . . .
Three takes on the Helvetica documentary: Our little secret. When Helvetica freezes over. A whole movie about a typeface?
David Lynn, editor of Kenyon Review, hopes to digitize KR archives, but the price is steep. He’s leaning toward early participation in Google’s scanning project.
Terrance Wedin, a fiction writer and Virginia Tech student who sat next to Cho Seung-Hui for a semester, is blogging at Esquire
What does the Virginia Tech shooting mean to writing in schools?