literary
Andrew James Weatherhead Proves You Don’t Have to Share Every Single Thing That Comes Into Your Mind
Andrew James Weatherhead is my everything and he has a new book.
A War Doctor Turned Poet Treats PTSD with Literature
We spoke with war poet Frederick Foote, a neurologist who's making poetry a required course of treatment in military hospitals.
Food Is a Private Hell; Love Is a Private Hell
Sarah Gerard's debut novel weaves a familiar range of personal terror in a vibrant, addictive display of prose. More than just a relentless confession amid the narrator's sprawl into emotive depths, Gerard enacts a nearly Kathy Acker–esque intensity in...
All the Books I Read in 2014
You might think literature is a dying art, but there are more books now than ever. This year the stacks on stacks piled up around me. Here's a list, in chronological order, of what I read.
'Preparation for the Next Life': An Interview with Atticus Lish
Preparation for the Next Life is Atticus Lish's first novel. It is, in the opinions of many of the world's literary tastemakers, really fucking good.
A Written Museum of Murder, Suicide, and Revelation in Baltimore
John Dermot Woods's new book, The Baltimore Atrocities, sculpts hundreds of sad, haunting miniature stories into a sort of Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not museum of horrors.
Love in the Time of Xanax and Nokia
Fiction is less about what happens than how it’s told, and to me there’s no one else speaking quite like Tim Sanders.
Print's Not Dead: Thirty Years of Dalkey Archive Press
For the past 30 years, Dalkey Archive has quietly and consistently been a vital aesthetic cornerstone in print. Here are some of my favorite titles.
'Sprezzatura' Basically Means You’re Chill But You Give a Shit
Mike Young is a writer of great grace, which is weird because the things he tends to write about are oatmeal muffins, garbage vacuums, robotic butterflies, Ice Cube, and pretty much anything you could find out in the dumpster behind a 7-Eleven in Weed...
Too Lazy To Read "Ulysses"? Virtual Reality Lit Game Lets You Play It
VR book gaming is the new Cliffsnotes.
'The Mystery Is in the Ordinary, Uncool Things' - An Interview with Author Juliet Escoria
Reading Juliet Escoria's Black Cloud feels as if you are reading a diary that someone wrote with the intention of it one day being found, for both her and your benefit. In other words, it is intimate.
Underappreciated Masterpieces: J. G. Ballard’s 'High Rise'
I was sold on High Rise (1975) after the first ten words: “Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog…”