Berfrois

Writing

PKD in the OC

Jami Attenberg: ‘Do you think people who work at the New Yorker have good sex?’

Poem trailers

‘While Garcia Marquez keeps his language relatively spare-he was writing for a newspaper, after all-there are frequent glimmers of the great descriptive powers that would later animate his novels.’

In Belarus, a novel entitled Paranoia suddenly disappears…

‘Five plain declarative sentences that get the story started at full speed-WHAP! You’re right in that room at the Shanghai Conservatory on that June afternoon in 1981.’

Slush is close to extinction

Port-au-Prince in writing

What tradition does IWE (Indian Writing in English) belong to?

Vengeance, conspiracy, otherworldly beings, and really big guns: readings of a slush pile veteran

Podcast: Howard Zinn reads the introduction to ‘A People’s History of the United States’
Image gallery: Jacket covers of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ through the years
Short story: ‘Quality Street’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Slideshow: Ramen in Toyko
Short story: ‘William Burns’ by Roberto Bolaño
Book excerpt: ‘A Fair Maiden’ by Joyce Carol Oates