“I had the threats in a separate text file, and then at a point where […] David was finding a threat, I would open up the file and choose one at random. I wanted David and myself to be discovering them at the same time… to not have woven the concept of the threat into the book.”
- Amelia Gray (author of Threats) on process and inspiration
Amelia Gray, author of Threats, on the last GQ/FSG Originals party. If you’re in NYC, make sure you RSVP for the next one (Monday, June 25th)!
Your must-watch video of the day: “The Birth of a Book” at Smith-Settle Printers in Leeds, England.
Inside the world of Tupelo Hassman’s Girlchild and Rory Dawn Hendrix’s Girl Scout “troop of one.”
From Sarah Manguso’s new book The Guardians, publishing this month.
(Curious? You can read an excerpt at The Paris Review.)
BAM interviews Paul Auster, the original Park Slope novelist.
