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This excerpt is drawn from La Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams by Georges Perec, translated by Daniel Levin Becker, to be published by Melville House on February 19. No. 16, July 1970 I am in Tunis. It is a vertically sprawling city. I’m on a very long walk: winding roads, lines of trees, fences, panoramas. It’s [...]

If the genius of Marilynne Robinson’s fiction is the central pillar of her popular image, its scarcity is an essential trestle. After publishing her landmark first novel Housekeeping in 1980, Robinson went 24 years without publishing a book of fiction. In that time, she penned two essay collections and the nonfiction book Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution, but just one short story.

Late Night Library is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting talented writers early in their careers. Their programs include a series of podcasts about debut titles, podcast conversations with cultural innovators, events that connect diverse literary communities, and a virtual network of writers and readers. Tonight they host Leni Zumas, author of The Listeners at [...]

We are launching Glaciers Bookclub in a box!

Jesse Nathan sings to us of American fast food and Scandinavian longing in this Lost & Found on J. P. Jacobsen’s Mogens and Other Stories. My life intersected with J. P. Jacobsen’s in a McDonald’s parking lot.  I hate many things about Ronald McDonald but his famous potatoes have had me in their MSG-soaked thrall since [...]