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Danny Perez’s Oddsac is a peek into Animal Collective’s entire world. And it is, in a word, trippy.

I arrived at Edward Albee’s Tribeca loft at 10 AM. The playwright’s last name is printed clearly next to his buzzer. His voice rumbled through the intercom: “Who is this?” I told him. Silence. I waited several minutes

James Joyce, 1939

I had lost my shoes; I had to leave immediately, my students were waiting; my assistant already had the exams in their hands; class started at 9:00 and, I saw on my alarm clock, it was 9:15, now 9:16 (the black numbers seemed to frown at me

Gina Berriault (1926–1999) wrote some of the most finely crafted, precise, and beautifully observed American realist fiction of the 20th century. With a dexterous and surgical touch of just a couple of words, she could convey more about a...

I finally figured it out and I said it: You want me to leave? I said this because I did have small evidences. The day before they had gotten a little meaner, one of them especially, the bigger one, the one who had earlier been my champion.

TIME

Karr handles gruesome experiences with such compassion, charm, lyricism, vividness, and mordant comedy that the work transcends mere horror story or freak show. Her storytelling melds scrappy Texas slang with poetic precision and is totally addictive.

I was sitting outside the Commodore’s mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job. It was threatening to snow and I was cold and for want of something to do I studied Charlie’s new horse Nimble. My new

ALL PHOTOS FROM BEN RAYNER’S NEW BOOK, POWER BALLADS

Images courtesy of the artist, STANDARD (OSLO), and Air de Paris. Watch for a book of Torbjørn’s Andy Capps coming this winter from Hassla Books

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