“Eavesdropping is a theme with a long literary history”: An appreciation of web-programmer, nuanced technology writer, and novelist Ellen Ullman, penned by Maud Newton.
Arts & Crafts is teaming up with Anansi for a great big indie short story contest in celebration of the beloved record label's 10 year anniversary.
Here's a long and incredibly interesting—even darkly titillating—excerpt from James Lasdun's forthcoming book, Give Me Everything You Have. A former writing of his developed a paranoid obsession with Lasdun, accusing him of racism, sexual misconduct, general sexism, and even plagiarism. It's wild and horrible, like something out of a Philip Roth novel. Throughout the piece, Lasdun makes comments about the nature of reputation, tactics of aggression, and the strange way that two parties in conflict can simultaneously perceive their own victimhood. And it gets weirder and even more labyrinthine.
And The Millions has just launched an e-book series! Their first offering is a treatise on the value of bad art and empty memes, by Mark O'Connell. Which would probably look real good digitally shelved next to Stephen Poole's You Aren't What You Eat, given that both are supremely stylish and thoughtful considerations of both how we live and how we ought to.
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Image: Broken Social Scene from Arts & Crafts
