Blake Butler

After spending several days sprawled out watching men on TV throw a ball at a hole in an effort not to get eliminated from a competition, I decided to subject the glorious fast food restaurants of America to a similar contest. I seeded 64 of our most...

Contrary to popular belief, the book isn't so great or novel, although it sure is American.

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We talked to the professional gamer known as Kripparrian to find out how he regularly live-beats the shit out of noobs and other pros alike.

We spoke to filmmaker Guy Maddin about his new project 'Séances'—a web-based, algorithm-driven assemblage made up of the world's lost films.

What the fuck is happening in this book?

Evenson's universe of psycho-cerebral horror is so unsettling that it has the ability to make something about the room in which you read him seem off.

McCormack wrote his new book, 'The Well-Dressed Wound,' while battling cancer. "The book had to save me, or show me a way that I could be saved," he said.

The German author's most recently translated novella, 'The Trumpets of Jericho' bears direct resemblance to her life, and tells an immersive, disturbing tale of abuse, motherhood, abortion, and depression.

Lately I've been finding it hard to trust what I read unless it makes an attempt at caving in the borders between the page and the world beyond.