on Rotten Tomatoes.”
In Men’s Journal, Karl Ove Knausgaard tells an interviewer about one of his favorite contemporary writers: “I was reading Maggie Nelson when you came, and I just bought four books by her before we met. She’s so much better than anything I’ve read for a long, long time.”
Greg Milner, the author of 2009’s Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music, is back with a new book, Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds. The book cites recent breakthroughs in neuroscience suggesting that our brains come equipped with the ability to navigate space. “If we do indeed have a kind of innate GPS,” Milner writes in an excerpt, “what happens to our brains as we transition into a world where these kinds of calculations are unnecessary, when GPS does it all for us?”
Novelist Lydia Millet pays homage to Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: “What makes The Lorax such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.”
Slate has asked readers to vote on which book should be the next focus of its Year of Great Books club. The shortlist is: My Antonia, Swann’s Way, Mrs. Dalloway, and War and Peace. You can vote here.
Jean Stein’s Edie, Tom Spanbauer’s The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays: Ten books that influenced performer and Tango author Justin Vivian Bond.
Tonight in New York, at the Kitchen, Cecilia Corrigan, Lynne Tillman, and Jackie Wang will read from their contributions to the new chapbook anthology Say Bye to Reason and Hi to Everything.