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How Lynne Tillman's 'Mothercare' helped me face my aging parents' future
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years ago(Jozef Polc / 500px via Getty Images) Not long ago, while discussing my mother and father, who are...
Katie Kitamura's 6 favorite books with sentimental themes
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoKatie Kitamura. Courtesy Image Katie Kitamura's Intimacies, now out in paperback, is about a woman...
Review: Eldercare is a crisis, personal and political, in Lynne Tillman's unsparing memoir
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEleven years can be a staggeringly long time. This is how long the novelist and short story writer Lynne Tillman spent caring for her declining mother — an exhausting period of her life compressed ...
Patrick deWitt recommends 6 books that are both dark and funny
The Week via Yahoo News· 9 months agoPatrick deWitt Courtesy Image Patrick deWitt is the author of the darkly comic novels "The Sisters...
A (hopefully premature) obituary for Bookforum and the magazines that connect us
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJay Penske is CEO of Penske Media Corp., which bought Artforum but not its partner publication,...
Joaquin Phoenix, Joel Coen & Todd Haynes Among 150 Signatories Of Open Letter In Support Of Jonathan...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoMore than 150 Jewish industry professionals, including Joaquin Phoenix, Joel Coen, and Todd Haynes,...
Review: A British cult favorite crosses over with a blistering novel about an inscrutable mum
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWere it not for our culture’s obsession with youth and beauty, as well as publishing’s perpetual fascination with the wunderkind, I would have thought “My Phantoms,” the latest novel by English ...
Kathy Acker, late punk empress of radical lit, gets a fitting biography
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 'Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker,' Jason McBride follows a writer who was easy to romanticize, hard to read, impossible to know.