Ed Winstead is Coordinating Editor of Public Books and co-editor of Guernica Daily. His work has appeared in Literary Hub, Guernica, Hyperallergic, the Rumpus, the American Reader, and elsewhere. Follow him on Twitter.
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The Marshmallow Test
To the extent that a reviewer’s job involves a summary of plot, Stig Sæterbakken’s Self-Control, in translation from Norwegian, offers little challenge. Andreas Feldt has a conversation with his daughter. He tells her that he is divorcing her mother, a lie, and the daughter, after a momentary shock, seems unmoved. He hosts friends for dinner, […]
Weekend Reading: Memory Lane
One day we won’t be covered in snow. But not just yet, it seems. While we wait, here’s your weekend reading. NBC’s Brian Williams has found himself in hot water over his account of being shot at while flying in a helicopter in Iraq in 2003, which, apparently, never happened. That, in turn, has brought […]
Weekend Reading: Laughter in the Dark
2015 has gotten off to an unnerving start, to say the least. The week has been dominated by the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the subsequent standoffs, and the bombing at a Colorado NAACP office, both of which (the former much more so than the latter, more on that later) have sparked a lot of […]
Weekend Reading: Rise of the Machines
It’s nearly over, but 2014 hasn’t totally packed it in yet. Here is your weekend reading, to get you through to 2015: Real-life personages rendered on screen will naturally be subject to a lot of scrutiny, if only from the know-it-alls desperate for anachronisms to moan about. A mindless exercise in hum-buggery when applied to […]
Weekend Reading: Bad Santa
The holidays are fast approaching, and with them, travel, Seasonal Affective Disorder, and the need for excuses to avoid conversation with your uncle when he’s in one of his moods. As such, here is your weekend reading: The brilliant Penelope Fitzgerald, who would have turned 98 this week (and who was the subject of a […]
