“[T]his highly original, farcical novel will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator” At Library Journal, Lauren Gilbert on Sara Levine’s upcoming novel Treasure Island!!! (on Europa Editions.) Vice has an excerpt up from Amelia Gray’s forthcoming novel Threats. At Big Other, Paula Bomer chats with Edward Mullany. Philip Gourevitch has one of the most succinct summations of the week’s events regarding Occupy Wall Street at The New Yorker. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn […]
Afternoon Bites: NY Tyrant, the LA scene, “11/22/63,” and more
Errol Morris has some good things to say about Stephen King’s 11/22/63 in this weekend’s New York Times Book Review, and coins the phrase “the weird quotidian” in the process. (Morris also chatted with King for the paper’s ArtsBeat blog.) Amelia Gray, recently arrived in the city in question, on Los Angeles’s literary scene. At HTML Giant, news of the next issue of New York Tyrant. Alexander Chee on David Mazzuchelli’s Asterios Polyp. Warren Ellis’s “The Near Future of Pop” […]
Afternoon Bites: Nouvella Books, ABC No Rio, Norman Juster, and more
Nouvella Books has made their first title, Matthew Salesses’s The Last Repatriate, available to order. At NPR, Norman Juster looks back on The Phantom Tollbooth. Spencer Ackerman on the legacy of ABC No Rio. Antonia Crane on the anthology Warmed & Bound, at The Rumpus. The first issue of Unstuck will be out in Decemeber (and can be pre-ordered now), and features the likes of Aimee Bender, Joe Meno, J. Robert Lennon, and Amelia Gray.
Three Stories: Eric Howerton, Amelia Gray, Mary Hamilton
Posted by Tobias Carroll Three stories, all quite good, presented for your perusal from venues around the web. It wasn’t until I looked down at the complete post that I realized some thematic resonance among the titles.