Ling Ma
Reads Editor
ling_at_venuszine_dot_com
New York, NY and Chicago, IL
About me
Please send galleys or advances (galleys preferred!) for review consideration to:
Ling Ma
144 North 7th Street, #436
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Fan of
Jeff Koons interviews (the art not so much), David Choe interviews, Domminick Dunne columns, Index magazine, Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations,” product packaging, gimmick advertising, modern China, the Lubitsch touch.
Projects
Editing the Reads section of Venus, writing a collection of short stories, learning how to make really red coq au vin, artlessly loitering in urban spaces, indexing cultural details. Lots of reading.
Articles by Ling Ma
A somber winter
Snow Angels comes off as a dreamy slice of rural living — until it’s interrupted with flashes of violence and suppressed, near-biblical ire
Mad Lit: Felicia Sullivan
Issue #35
How many readings of John Cheever’s Bullet Park does it take to purge WASP envy? The editor of Small Spiral Notebook keeps count. (The uncut version)
Samantha Hunt
Issue #34
The author goes searching for inventor Nikola Tesla and finds a story about the endless possibilities of science in The Invention of Everything Else. She also expounds on the New Yorker Hotel, living in small towns, and “you know, the wonders of
Product Placement
Issue #33
Almond Dofu
Alice Sebold
Issue #33
The author talks about covering new ground in her latest novel, The Almost Moon, learning to live with our own bodies, and how she got over being an ‘absolute loser’ in New York
Mad Lit: Kelly Link and Gavin Grant
Issue #33
The multitasking literary duo compares notes on Kim Stanley Robinson's epic sci-fi trilogy
What does Samuel Taylor Coleridge have to do with liquid nitrogen ice cream?
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman takes a leisurely promenade through any topic that strikes her fancy
Mad Lit: Jennifer Belle
At the release of her third novel, Little Stalker, the novelist revisits the appeal of Humbert Humbert and imagines downing scotches with Nabokov in the afterlife
Product Placement
Issue #32
Ramune
Book Reviews
Issue #31
The Last Communist Virgin
Karen Russell
Issue #30
Strewn with plane crashes, alligators, an d nuns, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves surveys the lonesome no man's land between childhood and adolescence.
Marisha Pessl
Continued from issue No. 29
Curtis Sittenfeld
Older and wiser, the author of Prep graduates from all the debut-novelist hype with a second book
The First Hurt
Issue #28
By Rachel Sherman
Curtis Sittenfeld
Issue #28
Older and wiser, the Prep author graduates from all the debut-novelist hype with a second novel, hard-earned experiences on the unspoken rules of publishing, and more thoughts on chick lit
Cat Power
The Greatest (Matador)
Pretty Little Dirty
Issue #26
by Amanda Boyden
'Wide Eyed' by Trinie Dalton
Akashic Books, $13.95, 176 pages
'Jules and Jim' review
DVD (Criterion Collection)
'Nobody Knows' review
In Hirokazu Kore-eda's vision of childhood pathos, four children feign their non-existence to the world
Smart smut
Issue #22
The uncut interview from issue No. 22
White Magic
Mira Billotte artfully talks about irony, throwback bands, and the difference between imitation and influence
'Fahrenheit 9/11' review
Moore's documentary eloquently rips Bush a new one
'The Brown Bunny' review
What is there to say about this film that hasn't already been said?
Gee's Bend quilts
Four generations of African American women reinvent the Euro-American quilt
Thalia Zedek
With the release of her second solo full-length, the former Come member talks about her day job and becoming a solo artist
Lucky LooLoo's girl band fashion contest
Jewelry company wants you to sing for your bling
'The Stepford Wives' review
Feminist backlash sold separately
