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Posted inBooks, Guest Pick, Highlight
Ten Books to Read in 2018
We asked writers, editors, and booksellers to tell us about a few books they felt deserved more recognition last year.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Story
The State of the Bookstore Union
The Strand, New York City’s largest independent bookstore, is owned by a millionaire — and the booksellers who work there are all broke.
Posted inArts & Culture, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Where Have All the Music Magazines Gone?
Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Mary Gaitskill and the Life Unseen
Parul Sehgal on the author’s new novel, The Mare, the search for real connections, and loneliness.
Posted inEditor's Pick
When People—and Characters—Surprise You
Mary Gaitskill breaks down a moment in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Searching for Meaning Inside a Tech Company’s First Bookstore
University Book Store—begun by students in 1900—is just up the road from University Village, and while they serve superficially different markets, it’s difficult not to see Amazon’s choice of location as yet another act of aggression toward indie bookstores, whose owners and employees are particularly suspicious of the company’s motives. Speaking over her reading-stack-as-topography desk […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Mary Gaitskill on Beauty and Permanence
What is [death]? It’s a fact that human beings—no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are—are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that’s a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around. It’s a very strange […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
‘If You Want to Be Famous, Don’t Be a Writer’
I’m always curious about the relationship between ambition and fame. On one hand, the desire to be a famous writer can be useful—you have to have drive, ambition. You need to be balls-out doing what you’re going to do to have any hope of success. But on the other hand, so many writers conflate ambition […]
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Mary Gaitskill Recommends Saul Bellow
recommendedreading: Vol. 8, No. 3 EDITOR’S NOTE Years ago I had a conversation with a friend comparing John Updike and Saul Bellow. At the time I liked Updike a little better, but she said something on Bellow’s side that nearly changed my mind on the spot. “Updike sees,” she said. “He sees the world and […]
