“I love trash. I like Jacqueline Susann and the early Harold Robbins. I love Jackie Collins.” A report on Fran Lebowitz (Social Studies), book collector.
“I remember the chocolate Easter bunny problem of where to start.” A review of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard edited by Ron Padgett. Here. For an affecting account of a friendship, see Padget’s earlier Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard. Here.
A close read of journalist Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine: How Creativity Works . Here. Plus an interview with the author. Here.
Heidi Julavitz (The Vanishers) is a Hunger Games freak. Here.
A report on Sean Stewart’s On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties Underground Press in the U.S.
Wonderful writerly thoughts from the late novelist Harry Crews! Here.
