‘Writing about Cassavetes feels like vocalese: putting lyrics to passages of jazz improvisation.’
A man and a woman are walking out of a movie theatre. They’d opened the paper that morning and saw that it was playing—a single showing at that run-down, shabby movie theatre where nobody goes. They rushed in and bought tickets, an afternoon show on a weekday. Sat down in those broken seats, th…
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Jonathan Lethem on why Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn is the best book of a year to come.
‘People who unfriend their friends while friending their unfriends. People who do not acknowledge the person. Persons who are not personal.’
‘The warmest companion with the coldest vision of where Humanity might head.’
‘I wasn’t interested in childhood, I wanted to hang out with these guys.’
‘Bollywood is part of what our culture has become. We are lying to ourselves all the time.’
