For nearly six years The Mookse and the Gripes has run as a mostly solo affair — though I have many people to thank for making it what it is today. Things changed a bit a little over a year ago when I invited Betsy to come “above the line” and contribute her thoughts on
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Jonathan Lethem’s “Pending Vegan” was originally published in the April 7, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. I’m hit and miss with Jonathan Lethem. We’ll have thoughts up soon. In the meantime, please leave
It’s a shame that through the Best Translated Book Award I’ve come to know a couple of authors by books that function almost as suicide notes — or, rather, we read them like that because they talk of death and depression (and suicide) and then shortly after their publication the author has taken his (no women to date) own life. Such
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