flatheadbeacon.com
Edward Abbey's Day Job
flatheadbeacon.com
4 min read · Apr 20th · “Haven’t seen a real fire or smoke yet,” Edward Abbey wrote in the Numa Ridge Lookout logbook on July 12, 1975. “One craves a little excitement around this joint.” Abbey, then 48, was at his day job…
The New York Times
Our Autofiction Fixation
The New York Times
5 min read · Mar 14th · Why do we assume that a work of literary fiction must be based on its author’s life?
vqronline.org
Frantumaglia
vqronline.org
~17 min read · Mar 26th · The enormous attention to Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet—first the books published in the US between 2012 and 2015 and then the HBO series that has so far covered the first two titles, My…
mealsmatter.net
The Truffle Hunters – movie as portraiture
mealsmatter.net
2 min read · Feb 28th · BEFORE WE GET any further: Italian white truffles are more marvelously aromatic than the French black, and have resisted cultivation, unlike the latter. Many years before white truffles fetched sev…
The New Yorker
What Happens When You Breathe
The New Yorker
8 min read · Jan 18th · Our lungs sustain a delicate equilibrium in our bodies, while exposing us to a world that seems increasingly out of balance.
LA Review of Books (LARB)
Writing Fiction in the Age of Climate Catastrophe: A Conversation Between Anne Charnock and James Bradley
LA Review of Books (LARB)
~20 min read · 2020-04-11 · James Bradley and Anne Charnock discuss what it’s like to write fiction in the age of climate catastrophe.
sydneyreviewofbooks.com
Tortoise — a different kind of newsroom
Matthew d’Ancona: Le Carré’s last mission
Tortoise — a different kind of newsroom
6 min read · 2020-12-14 · John le Carré was much more than the greatest chronicler of the Cold War. He saw the fault-lines in all that followed – and warned us of them till the end
The New Yorker
The Radicalization of Joan Didion
The New Yorker
~20 min read · From 2017 · She started out a Goldwater conservative. How did she become a voice of the left?
The New York Times
Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest
The New York Times
5 min read · 2020-08-15 · Lessing’s 1962 novel is far from a manifesto. But in its embrace of chaos and split identities, it captures the mood of both its time and ours.
Guardian Books
Crime fiction boom as book sales rocket past 2019 levels
Guardian Books
2 min read · 2020-07-07 · With bookshops still closed in parts of the UK, sales have surpassed last year’s numbers, with 3.8m print books sold in the last week
