If I had an extra hundred dollars, I would buy each of my friends a copy of Swamplandia! & send it to them in the mail with a letter:
DEAR FRIEND,
I LOVE YOU, HERE IS A BOOK YOU WILL LOVE TOO. IF YOU LOVE ME, OPEN THIS BOOK AND START FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF SWAMPLANDIA!. KAREN RUSSELL CAN TAKE IT FROM THERE.
This is only a sneak attack post (bam!) because I have been mondo-sick for the entirety of February (stupid February), and I am working up some energy to write an essay on the Vida statistics, Betty Draper, and the article/extended-punchline-with-a-buried-moral Tina Fey wrote for The New Yorker, and, side note, why I kind of hate The New Yorker (spoiler alert!).
Meantime, here's some material for you to peruse:
If you would like to listen to Karen Russell on NPR's All Things Considered, click here.
If you haven't already read the thoughtful correspondence on the Vida statistics Jessa Crispin & Michael Schaub posted at Bookslut, click here (and here and here and here and here).
If you would like to read an interview with Emma Straub, whose Other People We Married just came out from Five Chapters Books and is almost at my house, click here.
If you would like to see Aimee Bender in person, you should show up at 8PM, this Thursday, at Memorial Hall, UMass-Amherst. Where I think there will be lemon-flavored cupcakes, but this is only a rumor.
If you would like to listen to Christy Crutchfield and CS Ward read some awesome fiction/poetry, you should come to Live Lit, this Friday, at Amherst Books.
Transmission ended (pow!).
