The Interesting Times #283 (8.6.26)

Issue #283

• Undoing the novel. >>The Light Room.

• A fragmented inventory of being. >>14 Ways of Looking.

• A five-thousand-piece puzzle. >>14 Ways of Looking.

• Parents, ghosts. >>Transcription.

• The impossible interview. >>Transcription.

• Vehicles for criticism. >>Transcription.

• An odd man out. >>Ambivalence.

• Charmed from the very first sentence. >>Childish Palate.

• This is the real red pill. >>Childish Palate.

• Not cracks but chasms. >>The Valley.

• Apotheosis of a speck. >>Caret.

• Longing and belonging. >>The Ruin of Magic.

• Wrestling defiant joy. >>Still Life with Remorse.

• Shitty orbit. >>Bad Archive.

• Every one a winner. >>Have This Heart.

• Mind-bending, impressionistic, genius. >>The Black Monk.

• Who’s afraid of realism? >>The Annotated Mrs Dalloway.

• Why Lydia Davis loves misunderstandings. >>Some books by Lydia Davis.

• Mourning the houseplant. >>Some books by Marlen Haushofer.

• Buffalo bones. >>’Lonesome Dove’.

• Chattiness.

• The invisible illness.

• Tikumu.

• Our film recommendation this week: Hour of the Wolf.

• Cooking the books.