Young John Ashbery

Readers! Update your bookmarks! Paper Trail is now here: http://blogs.bookforum.com/paper/

What’s Jonathan Lethem reading? “Russell Hoban’s Turtle Diary and Edward St. Aubyn’s Melrose books and Lydia Millet’s Magnificence just now, while at the bedside table and on trains and airplanes I’m grinding away at monsters over a period of months, if not years: Robert Musil’s Man Without Qualities and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle.”

In our age of “entrepreneurial journalism,” when writers are under pressure to be their own brands, what happens when business and journalism collide? At the Atlantic Wire, Alexander Nazaryan reports on the ongoing lawsuit between Zealot author Reza Aslan and his former fiancee and business partner Amanda Fortini, who, in the mid-2000s, co-founded a company called Aslan, Inc. Last year,

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