Favourite footnotes: 5

I took some liberties.

- Dave Eggers, on 'The Animal of the Church', his translation of 'Los Murmullos' by Alejandro Zambra, a translation of 'The Creature in Our Shul' by Nathan Englander, a translation of something I can't read in Hebrew by Etgar Keret, a translation of 'In Our Synagogue' by John Wray, a translation of 'Das Tier in der Synagoge' by Franz Kafka, in Multiples (ed. Adam Thirlwell)

Why hyphens are important

as proven, here, admittedly, by omission:

Two star novelists, Nathan Englander and Zadie Smith, on bringing back wrong and right, micro and macro writing, and David Foster Wallace

- Guernica

Though how they think they're going to bring back David Foster Wallace...