TODAY: In 1934, Mary Hunter Austin, early nature writer of the American Southwest, dies.
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“Nelson doesn’t gain her readers’ trust despite the first-person, but rather through her particular deployment of it.” Why Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is an achievement in perspective. | Lit Hub Criticism
“Margot and I were preparing to host our monthly dinner party when I told her this wasn’t working for me anymore.” Read from Téa Mutonji’s new novel, My Person. | Lit Hub Fiction
NEW FROM ACCLAIMED WRITER JESS ROW
In his first story collection in fifteen years, Jess Row evokes white America—specifically liberal, educated white Northeasterners—awkwardly and hilariously poised on the precipice of cultural and global collapse.
“Nazi Germany was indeed unique in its particular ghoulishness, ambitions, and scope… but, as Koeppen’s trilogy suggests, it was neither an aberration nor was it to be even for a short while an end to such atrocities.” Deborah Eisenberg on Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar novels. | New York Review of Books
