John Jeremiah Sullivan Explores the World of Massage
For this weekend’s read, we’re in a throwback mood and recommending John Jeremiah Sullivan’s 2012 piece for the New York Times Magazine, “My Multiday Massage-a-thon.” In the piece, Sullivan, the author of the 2011 essay collection Pulphead and contributor to publications such as The Paris Review and GQ, first declares himself something of a massage...
Mary Karr on Reading and The Art of Memoir
This week we recommend an interview with poet and memoirist Mary Karr at The Paris Review, The Art of Memoir No. 1. In the interview, Karr, the author of the memoirs The Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit, as well as four volumes of poetry and other works, speaks with Amanda Fortini on the nature of memoir,...
The Laurels of Lake Constance
The Paris Review interviewed Marie Chaix, author of several novels, including The Laurels of Lake Constance and Silences, or a Woman’s LIfe. The article addresses everything from her many novels to her painful discovery of her father’s secret past as “the right-hand man of pro-German Fascist collaborator Jacques Dorio.” Check out the interview here.
