Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China Cool story with 43min audio
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Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China Cool story with 43min audio
Emily Feng April 20, 2018 | Financial Times Qiufan is quietly tucked away at a corner table in a lively Beijing bookstore — so quietly, in fact, that I miss him entirely for half an hour. Embarrassed, and knowing him to be a rapacious consumer of entertainment and literature (he pushes himself to see…
Dangerous Don DeLillo “I was born on Nov. 20, 1936,” he begins, leaning an inch or two forward, toward the tape recorder. He sticks to the essential facts. Except for a short stint in Pennsylvania when he was quite young, he was brought up in the Fordham section of the Bronx, a neighborhood…
David Foster Wallace: “Consider the Lobster” Gourmet Magazine, August 2004.
The Real Mr. Difficult, or Why Cthulhu Threatens to Destroy the Canon, Self-Interested Literary Essayists, and the Universe Itself. Finally. – Los Angeles Review of Books NOVEMBER 24, 2014 “The Real Mr. Difficult, or Why Cthulhu Threatens to Destroy the Canon, Self-Interested Literary Essayists, and the Universe Itself. Finally.”
“Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as we Know it”–a Correction Ben Marcus
The latest “difficult books” essay in Harper’s. Jess Row, Oct. 20 2005