“I try to create parasitic works, building on others’ creations—not just acknowledging the reader’s life outside of the book but (so I hope) pointing in fruitful directions for his or her distraction.” Gabriel Blackwell talked with The Lit Pub about his books Shadow Man and Critique of Pure Reason.

Novelists on their first drafts.

“And I loved spooky books about witches, or where a girl’s house is haunted by antique dead twins trying to inhabit their bodies. Shit like that was my jam. For a period in the 90s when everyone was tagging my tag was ‘Lois Duncan.’” Michelle Tea talked to The Fanzine.

Frank Hinton was interviewed at Monkeybicycle.

A number of Microphones vinyl reissues are on their way.

Readers of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell may be gladdened to hear that a companion to it is on the way.

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