Weekend Reading

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New short fiction from Sara Novic in Guernica.

From the vault: “The Dinner Party”, a short story by Joshua Ferris published in The New Yorker in 2008. (Ben’s about to begin Ferris’s upcoming novel, To Rise Again At a Decent Hour, and wanted to warm up. Shameless plug: Ferris will be here at BookPeople Wednesday, May 21 with the new book.)

Biographile talked to Michio Kaku about his new book, The Future of the Mind, and the possibilities the future of physics and neuroscience may hold. “We might also be able to control robots with superhuman bodies (like in the movies “Surrogates” and “Avatar”) so that we can live on other planets, explore the heavens, work in dangerous environments, or have powerful exoskeletons like in “Iron Man.”

Vulture interviewed Lorrie Moore about her latest collection of stories, Bark. “There’s trauma in life, and then there’s a slight relaxation, and that allows for a recognition of how displaced you are. Pulling slightly away, you see this is crazy and kind of funny and also painful and horrifying.

The Airship followed the drunk adventures in Raymond Carver’s Will You Be Quite Please? “The craziest thing about tallying the drinks in these stories is that it hardly does the drinking justice.