The Maris Review, vol 10

How do we make executives be good at their jobs again? How do we make them care about the books, TV shows, music, whatever, that they're in charge of putting out?

What I read this week

Bear by Julia Phillips

There simply aren’t enough contemporary novels that are explicitly about awe above all else. Bear is one of them. The title says it all: if you guessed that a book called Bear is about a bear, you are correct. It takes place on a small island off the coast of Washington State, where two sisters encounter a bear…