Bookish

For some, summer begins when they scrape last summer's gunk off the grill and fire it up for the first time in nine months. Others

While on his deathbed, the artist and writer Joe Brainard had this to say: “One good thing about dying, you don't have to go to

This week, the PEN World Voices Festival celebrates international literature with a shitload of panel discussions between writers from all over the world. I don't

I’ve been reading this Harry Crews book, Classic Crews, a mini anthology of his memoir writing, with A Childhood foremost, and a few other works

Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey’s APPENDIX APPENDIX is now distant history, published in 2007, but the book is one of those warm strange works with

The events that set the framework of Leopold Haas’ The Raft (Reality Street, 2011) are well known to history or, more likely, art history. This

Has any title aspired to do so much as Applies to Oranges, a false substitution from the start? Apples just an autocorrect away. Applies a

In the chronology of straight-faced summaries with artistic ambition, Fiona Banner’s The Nam comes to mind as a forerunner in the field. That maximalist conceptual

When choosing favorites, some get left out, some are never known, some are never realized, some are listed below. Family Fang by Kevin Wilson Stand

The more lucid the book, the bigger fan I'm becoming. In school or something, I was interested in stuff that didn't make sense, and now