Ten days, ten questions that ask you to take a step back and look at what’s been going on in your world: that’s the simple premise behind 10Q, a Web project from novelist and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman, British writer Nicola Behrman, and Amelia Klein, the program director for Reboot, a non-profit organization for Jewish creatives. Now in its second year, the site provides a space for people to reflect on the past year, examine their values, and imagine where they’re going next. Starting today you can preview the ten questions that they’ll be asking on a jumbotron in Times Square. Flavorpill caught up with Greenman earlier this week to ask him some questions of our own. Read More »

Over the weekend our friend Ron Hogan gave us the head’s up that one of our favorite writers, Ben Greenman (who we interviewed about his last book, Correspondences, here), has an original theme song for his soon-to-be released book Please Step Back. Kind of makes those art-house trailers look like small change, huh? Read More »

The Guardian’s STUART JEFFRIES wondered last Wednesday what ROBERT BROWNING’s emails to ELIZABETH BARRETT would be like today; if they were living at a time when we’re more likely to poke our friends on Facebook than write them a letter, let alone one that, to quote Browning, we would “press to [our] heart and bow [our] head upon.”

One can’t help but recognize the irony in Jeffries contemplating the topic on his blog.

We recalled this when we read New Yorker editor BEN GREENMAN’s newest book, CORRESPONDENCES. The “book” consists of seven short stories, six written in the form of a letter. The aesthetics are unique, with each story printed on thick paper in its own distinctive font and folded into neat squares; two stories per bundle, presented in a box. The seventh story, “What He’s Poised to Do,” is embossed on the cover of the case, and not only communicates a story to the reader, but begs his/her participation via postcard.

When FLAVORWIRE had the opportunity to correspond, via email, with the author, we asked him a few questions to uncover the story behind this singular endeavor. Our favorite bits of the interview after the jump.

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