What is it about our deep need to ride a possessed roller coaster that whips us from fear to relief and then back to fear faster than we can scream, “Ghost!” ? I would argue that we need those feelings now more than ever. Have you seen what’s going on out there? Sometimes reading something […]
“And the title, of course, has this double meaning, the financial meaning of trust, and let’s call it, emotional meaning of trust … To what extent can I trust this voice and the book, to a large extent is questioning the contracts we enter into as readers.” Hernan Diaz follows up his acclaimed debut novel, In […]
The author of “Barbara the Slut” talks with Nathan Englander — about the making of her boundary-pushing debut collection.
This year’s Presidential Election has left television viewers, talk radio listeners, social media followers, and newspaper readers reeling from too-much-information overload. In the same way diners welcome a juice fast after an all-you-can-eat buffet (or small children benefit from a screaming meltdown after a day at a theme park), our American brains are in desperate […]
These days, everyone knows what an origin story is thanks to superhero movies and comic books. We’ve now seen multiple iterations of the origin story behind figures like Batman and Spider-Man, and will no doubt get to see them a few more times before the sweet release of death. Of course, the term “origin story” applies […]
