“For every person who is here now, whose families haven’t been through awful things?” —Kristopher Jansma The writer’s historical novel, “Our Narrow Hiding Places,” explores intergenerational resilience following the Dutch famine. bombmagazine.org/articles/krist…

“Only, mere minutes after she's dropped the match that will turn it into a bonfire, he comes home.” Read the piece, "Sustain," by Tim Horvath (Tim Horvath) in the Summer 2024 Issue of Ploughshares: pshr.us/summer24

There should be a word like "afield" but for settings other than fields. Like "asea" or "abay," only with better options.

Many thanks to Bradford Morrow and Conjunctions for publishing my story, "Alligator" today. buff.ly/3YwzinC

The wonderful conversation with Ryan Ruby on In the Suavity of the Rock is up. thisissplice.co.uk/fiction/in-the… youtube.com/live/sVwvPK07f…

Special episode coming tomorrow: we talk to Renata Adler in person about Speedboat, Pitch Dark, and her career as a whole.

Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter is one of the most imaginative and clever novels that I've ever read. Is it possible to award someone the Nobel Prize for Literature twice? Asking for a friend. His last name is pronounced Josa not Losa.

The makings of an inkling of the promise of the faint outline of the rudiments of the whisper of the possibility of the ghost of a concept of a plan.

The prosecution rests.

We’d like to announce that while we are not a hotel, we are a concept of a hotel.

Angela Carter will always be one of my favorite writers, but I'm still getting caught up on what a marvelous reader, critic, and commentator she was, her circumference always so much larger than any one book. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v11/…

not a lot of people know that "Sally Rooney: Intermezzo" is an anagram of "merely a nine złoty's orzo". 9 złoty is about £1.50, which from Morrisons gets you 500g of orzo - just 60g less than the weight of *Intermezzo* in hardback. a fun "easter egg" from faber and faber

If you’re in Gainesville and can make it to The Lynx today, please come! We still don’t have electricity but we can’t afford to lose another day of sales, so we’ll be making it work. Thank you! We love you!

this is just like Don DeLillo

Can you imagine? This would be so incredible. Someone please hire me to write this column!

Remember first checking out Gerald's Party from the library and being baffled and utterly delighted by it, page after page. It's reassuring to realize Coover was baffled himself--"Ask me in 25 years," he said. A giant, a genre unto himself; RIP. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…

An issue cairn in memory of beloved contributor Robert Coover, who appeared in our pages many times over the years. We are grateful for his words, his friendship, his brilliance, and his joy. He will be missed. ♥️

I do appreciate seeing the phrase "poetic prose" used in a way that seems to mean not florid or pleasant but "absolutely lacerating"

Olga Tokarczuk’s next novel is ‘very big’, formally similar to Flights and is about the people of Lower Silesia.

Over at Volume 1 Brooklyn, I talked memory and history with Kristopher Jansma! vol1brooklyn.com/2024/10/11/kri…