Writers | Dailies

Mar 10, 20238 min read

Constance Debré and Chris Kraus on queer identity, casual sex and the politics of refusal via Granta

Constance Debré is the author of Play Boy, winner of the 2018 Coupole Prize, and Love Me Tender, translated from the French by Holly...

Oct 6, 20211 min read

on Two Girls Fat and Thin by Mary Gaitskill

by Lauren Berlant

Jun 23, 20213 min read

PALM SPRINGS ETERNAL: ALLIE ROWBOTTOM INTERVIEWS JON LINDSEY

Jon Lindsey is the author of the novel BODY HIGH (May 1, 2021, House of Vlad). He’s also my husband. We met at CalArts in 2009. We were...

Apr 11, 20211 min read

Couples by John Updike

“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.” - Piet Hanema

Mar 19, 202116 min read

"Incorporate Everything, Understand Everything - Norman Rush’s Mating at thirty" by Scott Sherman

“In Africa, you want more, I think.” With that laconic affirmation begins one of the strangest and most sublime American novels of the...

Mar 17, 20214 min read

Movies, Movies, Movies by Natasha Stagg

This week, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted, “strange to have come of age reading great novels of ambition, substance, & imagination...

Mar 16, 20211 min read

Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt

And being a salesman he could not stop analyzing in a really micro-obsessive nitty-gritty way what got him off. It's not what you see...

Mar 5, 20211 min read

"The Dawn of the Quaranzine" by Rachel Tashjian for GQ

https://www.gq.com/story/drunken-canal-new-now-zines We need one of these in LA. Here is an illicit screenshot of The Drunken Canal for...

Mar 3, 20211 min read

For Goodness’ Sake: The self-conscious drama of morality in contemporary fiction

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2702/the-self-conscious-drama-of-morality-in-contemporary-fiction-24022 by Lauren Oyler

Mar 3, 20211 min read

VANITY IS THE ENEMY: AN INTERVIEW WITH OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

http://thefanzine.com/vanity-is-the-enemy-an-interview-with-ottessa-moshfegh/ by Luke B. Goebel