SUN RA would have been 100 this year! Here is his reading list for for African-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe
Experience New York through the eyes and ears of Hari Kunzru in Twice Upon A Time
Robert Creeley reading “The Dishonest Mailman” at the Paris Review
Charles Mingus’ Cat Training Program!
“It was easy to assume, for example, that we would always be able to easily find a hedgehog in some corner of a London garden, pick it up in cupped hands, and unfurl it for our children—or go on a picnic and watch fat bumblebees crawling over the mouth of an open jam jar.”
Zadie Smith on Climate Change in the New York Review of Books
“It’s hard thinking of yourself as a writer with nothing in print—the case a couple of times in the 1970s and 1980s—so there’s a certain satisfaction in finally seeing all the fiction back on the shelves. Though of course the usual doubts remain.”
Fantastic interview with the “continually rediscovered” Stanley Crawford over at Bomb Magazine
