Catherina Adams at Inkslinger has an interesting project going on. She's working her way through the recently repackeged and rereleased four-volume set of The Paris Review Interviews, pullin out interesting quotes and remarking on them. For...

Since I lambasted the NY Times' lame Notables list earlier this week, might as well register an opinion of the just-published fav fiction list from West Coast rival LA Times. Pretty good list. Far more range in terms of literary style, and...

If we can get behind Harold Bloom's assertion that texts engender other texts--and thus that literary criticism, like fiction and poetry, is an artistic response to an earlier work--then Roland Barthes' S/Z is an excellent example of what Bloom had in...

What Is All This?, Stephen Dixon's 900-page story collection, is publishing from Fantagraphics in March of next year. We can add Dixon to the list of contemporary English-language writers I need to read. Found here. More info here.

Don't miss frequent Quarterly Conversation contributor Lauren Elkin's review of Rose Alley by Jeremy Davies up at The Second Pass. The novel is structured as a trip into the archives of the film, decades later, compiled and catalogued by an...