29 January 2025
Happy lunar new year. Happy year of the snake.
“He understands the power of books, but doesn’t appreciate literature!” my friend Fish exclaimed. This was some summer in the early 2010s at Fish’s house in the rural …
29 January 2025
Happy lunar new year. Happy year of the snake.
“He understands the power of books, but doesn’t appreciate literature!” my friend Fish exclaimed. This was some summer in the early 2010s at Fish’s house in the rural …
22 November 2024
For my editing and publishing students, I am always seeking accounts of what it means to build a life and career in publications. In an interview last year on the podcast Print is Dead (Long Live Print!)…
18 July 2024
I’m starting this at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, in my hotel room, at five am, having already been up for over an hour. Apparently, 1) I get jet lag even when I drive, and 2) my two-year-old’s …
8 May 2024
Last week, we had yet another great event here in Athens, Georgia. Xinyue Huang and Hanif Abdurraqib read at our storied music venue, the 40 Watt, to a house packed by locals and out-of-towners. Avid Bookshop was …
1 February 2024
By the time this issue leaves the printer, the writer Alexander Chee will have come to give the Betty Jean Craige lecture, hosted by the comparative literature department at UGA. I am very excited about the visit, …
15 November 2023
This past year I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that most—all, the polemicist would assert—of the major stylistic interventions of the twenty-first century driving the book world now are born out of literary periodicals. McSweeney’s, …
8 August 2023
In our letter correspondence, a friend and I had a brief back-and-forth about the function of criticism, particularly about how the current economic world—in academia and book reviewing, specifically—is uncoupling the function of criticism from traditional professional …
15 May 2024
“Well, I just got lost in the art,” Garrett Hongo said during his recent visit to Athens to promote The Perfect Sound: A Memoir in Stereo, his current book about a lifelong obsession with music, stereo …
14 February 2023
In the “Editing and Publishing” class I teach at UGA, I asked my students to compare and contrast the different experiences in watching a movie and an episode of a serial as a way to give them …