A very cool van. Photographs by Sophie Haigney. We went to the lot. The lot, my younger brother observed—he was a first-time Dead & Co. show attendee—was “literally just a parking lot.” In fact it was a parking lot adjacent to the Port of San Francisco and near the SFPD headquarters, where I used to […]
The upcoming Paris Salon du Livre presents a remarkable exhibition in collaboration with its Guest of Honour in 2023, the Swiss Jan Michalski Foundation for Writing and Literature, to mark the 150th anniversary of this French icon’s birth. Share This Article: Unknown photograph – Portrait of Colette [1910] ©Alamy Stock Photo Colette (Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, 1873 – […]
The *NSYNC alum opens up to PEOPLE about his latest partnership with Meow Mix, and a potential future concept album for one of his in-the-works projects JC Chasez knows it’s been a minute since fans have seen him, but that’s about to change thanks to a group of dancing cats. “A lot of people haven’t […]
Cristina Garcia’s revelatory first novel, Dreaming in Cuban , a finalist for the 1992 National Book award, revolved around the del Pino family, its matriarch Celia, her children and grandchildren as they negotiate disagreements, dislocations, and reconnections in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution. With Vanishing Maps , her eighth novel, Garcia revisits the del […]
The following is a story from Kathleen Alcott’s Emergency . Alcott is the author of the novels America Was Hard to Find, Infinite Home and The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets Home . She has taught at Columbia University and Bennington College, and her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, Harper’s […]
The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges lost his vision—what he called his “reader’s and writer’s sight”—around the same time that he became the director of the National Library of Argentina. This put him in charge of nearly a million books, he observed, at the very moment he could no longer read them. Borges, who went […]
