The May 2008 issue of Boldtype is now up and it is finger-licking good. They've got:
- A review of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by Jennifer 8. Lee
- A review of Lush Life by Richard Price
- A review of The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
- A review of Stoner by John Williams
- A review of After the Deluge, which chronicles Kara Walker's work (her show is currently at Hammer Museum and it came up several times this past weekend, and I promised myself I'd see it, based solely on the recommendation of Jami Attenberg)
- A review of The Bishop's Daughter by Honor Moore
- A feature with Studs Terkel
- A feature with A.M. Homes in which she makes me fall in love with her all over again:
"It shocks me that people can write something and claim that they didn't know they were writing fiction. I very much wanted it to be clear when I was imagining a piece of this book. We're living in a weird time. I don't know if it's the conflation of reality TV with therapy and confessional culture, but people don't know the difference between fiction and nonfiction anymore. I think it's just shocking. Take the woman who wrote the gang memoir that turned out not to be true — why wouldn't it have been good enough to just say she wrote a novel? You have political candidates who misremember where they were. I'm waiting for the person to say that they were at some event when they hadn't even been born yet."
