- Carol Keeley’s beautiful, eye-opening essay over at the Ploughshares blog. It’s about sentences. And I like sentences, a lot, and Carol covers Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Don DeLillo, Gary Lutz and David Foster Wallace. The essay also includes one of my favorite DeLillo quotes (from Mao II‘s Bill Gray): “I’m a sentence maker. Like a donut maker, only slower.”
- Tracy Lucas’s moving, inspiring post over at the Pank blog. It’s heartfelt. It’s spot-on. It’s good. Very good.
- A roundtable discussion of first books over at Hobart (featuring Kevin Wilson, Laura van den Berg, Roxane Gay, Holly Goddard Jones, Jedediah Berry and more).
- This email exchange between Jonathan Lethem and David Gates.
- Elizabeth Ellen’s essay “Stalking Dave Eggers,” which is about more than stalking Dave Eggers.
- The announcement that Pank will be publishing Ethel Rohan’s Hard to Say. Congratulations, Ethel!
That is all. For now.
Hey, thanks.
Happy you enjoyed it.