On the gossip from the Quill Awards.
The hypothetical longlist for the Short Story Prize.
Bat Segundo podcasts with Oliver Sacks, Richard Russo and … James Lipton?
Mona Gonzales, about whom I know nothing, doing a playlist for her book Twin Time: Or How Death Befell Me. Anyone who cites X’s “Los Angeles” is good by me.
Anne is blog-obsessing over a 1936 book I’ve never heard of. Now I, too, am entranced by The Novel on Yellow Paper.
Laila is intrigued by the story of twins separated at birth; I was too. But I gotta warn you — the book Identical Strangers doesn’t live up to its promise.
Philip Gourevitch is living up to his promise at the Paris Review, the NY Observer observes.
Kevin Moffett, interviewed in the new Hot Metal Bridge, will be reading Sunday at my favorite series, Vermin on the Mount with Gustavo Arellano, Duncan Murell and Mary Otis. I’d so be there if I weren’t in Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, Richard Serra is loose and roving the streets of New York.
