In our Friday afternoon reading: an interview with Mark Doten, new Amelia Gray fiction, Parul Sehgal on recent nonfiction, Gay Talese on Selma, the announcement of the Lambda Literary Award finalists, and more.
In our afternoon reading: Paul Constant on Sharma Shields and literary cryptozoology, interviews with Kelly Link and Dolan Morgan, new Amelia Gray fiction, and much more.
In our morning reading: a happy birthday to Derek Walcott, an interview with Björk, Amelia Gray on music videos, a playlist from Robert Repino, and more.
Thoughts on books from Atticus Lish and Helen DeWitt, new fiction from Amelia Gray, scenes from a book on NYHC, and more.
An excerpt from Station Eleven, new writing from Jami Attenberg and Amelia Gray, a review of Sam Pink’s new novel, Amanda Petrusich assembles a playlist, and more.
Amelia Gray’s fiction is sometimes visceral, sometimes revelatory, and often surreal. It’s fitting, then, that the cover of her forthcoming collection Gutshot contains all of those attributes. There’s a very literal sectioning of the figure at its center; there’s an organic-looking noise present that counterbalances the precision of the illustration. It’s one of the most arresting covers we’ve seen in a while. The cover design is by Charlotte Strick, and the art direction is by Rodrigo Corral. The book will be out in […]
As someone who’s long admired Amelia Gray’s fiction, from her debut collection AM/PM to her surreal, visceral novel Threats, I was very curious to hear that there would be a short film based on two of the former’s stories. From what I can tell from the trailer, it looks like the film incorporates the book itself into its plotline. Interest: definitely piqued. And speaking of the trailer, you can check that out below.
I’m probably stating the obvious here, but: solitude can yield impressive literary results. Samuel Beckett made stunning fiction from characters trapped in their own heads. Novels like Paul Harding’s Tinkers and Lydia Millet’s My Happy Life take similar approaches, taking the inner life of singular characters to a heightened level. There’s a certain school of nonfiction that places a narrator alone in a landscape and lets them work wonders with the scenery around them. And that, more or less, brings us to […]