The Millions : Illicit Pleasures: On Edward St Aubyn’s At Last

I sometimes miss writing here, on this website. It seems so old-fashioned to me now, a tiny Internet island disconnected from everything else. I remember first starting to type in this little box, or one very much like it, and the wonder and excitement and anxiety I felt when people responded from their own little […]

Putting together packages for Quarterly Co. has been a lot of fun and a lot of work. I’m excited to be ironing out the details for for my very last one right now. The most recent shipment included Colson Whitehead’s Colossus of New York, art from Molly Crabapple, a short story from Roxane Gay, (a […]

I am forever urging my students to mark up their books, to scribble, deface and decode. It's only by interacting with the books we admire at the sentence level that writers can begin to unlock the secrets of how one's... […]

I'm working at classing up the joint a little bit, streamlining, that sort of thing. A grand revival is being planned. […]