Notable Articles
June 16, 2010
20 More Under 40 46
by Editor
With apologies for obviousness, we hereby present our own informal, unscientific, alternate-universe “20 Under 40″ list.
June 4, 2010
A Speculative 20 Under 40, from 40 Years Ago 13
by Jeff Martin
If you look back 40 years to the year 1970, there were many more established, award-winning authors under the age of 40.
June 2, 2010
It’s Not You, It’s Me: Breaking Up With Books 75
by Sonya Chung
Recently it struck me that the list of books I’ve started and not finished has grown quite formidable. I ask myself what this “means,” if it reflects some kind of moral devolution.
May 24, 2010
Haruki Murakami and the Art of the Day 11
by Kevin Hartnett
What appealed to me most about Murakami’s essay was the way it joined something very big, like writing a novel, with something very small, like what time each day to go to bed.
May 17, 2010
Long Live the Anti-Novel, Built from Scraps 66
by David Shields
The author of Reality Hunger explains it all for you: “When I began, I was just trying to follow the Kafka dictum ‘A book should be an axe to break the frozen sea within us.’”
May 17, 2010
All Great Works of Literature Either Dissolve a Genre or Invent One: A Reading List 13
by David Shields
“A contemplation of Dyer, Markson, and Coetzee, three books that embody my aesthetic really, really well, plus many additional titles to explore.”
