A wide-ranging talk with novelist/screenwriter Bruce Wagner.

Order his new book and read my review of his previous one.

I read an essay Willem De Kooning wrote in 1950 that is included in a tiny book I bought from the collection of Tom Verlaine.

A talk with Scott Schaaf about growing up in the Quad Cities and ending up in Chicago to eventually open his great record store, Pinwheel Records, in Pilsen.

A hundred-seventy-nine-line list from Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual that is a kind of skeleton key or cheat sheet for the whole book.

A talk with Lucy Sante about her new memoir, a lifetime of writing, and her unexpected newfound fame.

Skyler Rowe interviews Dmitry Samarov about childhood, art, and the rest of it.

A talk with artist Katherine Eremia about growing up in the South, coming up to Chicago, and a whole lot more.

A talk with writer/podcaster/lover of remote locales, Tyler Dempsey.

Read my review of his novel, Will We All Still See Each Other Afterward.

A few more pages from Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual.

I read the intro to Georges Perec's 1978 novel.