Why I Like Amusement Parks
by Jeremy C. Shipp
Picture me in the attic, dusting headless mannequins and possessed marionettes and a rocking chair that rocks itself every night at 3:33. These cursed items aren’t going to clean themselves. As I’m dusting, I come across a cardboard box stuffed with old papers. At the very top of the pile, there’s a tiny one-page essay I wrote in elementary school entitled “Why I Like Amusement Parks.”
In our morning reading: exploring Rachel Ingalls’s novellas, thoughts on Rose City Band’s new album, and more.
Hi. We heard you liked books! We like books, too. We have some we’d like to recommend. All of them are newly out this month. We know, right? What a coincidence! Some new fiction from old friends, some experimental books by writers we’re meeting for the first time. It’s shaping up to be a banner year for books, and our April recommendations are keeping that theme going.
In our morning reading: adapting the fiction of Jeremy C. Shipp, interviews with Emma Straub and Elle Nash, and more.
In our morning reading: thoughts on the fiction of Bae Myung-hoon, an interview with Alex Dimitrov, and more.
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Sarah Weinman and Autumn Christian, an excerpt from Jeremy C. Shipp’s new book, and more.
The elements at the heart of Jeremy C. Shipp‘s The Atrocities hearken somewhat to the classics found in many a ghost story: someone summoned to a remote and mysterious house; strange events that defy rational explanation; an abundance of secrets, not all of them pleasant. But in Shipp’s book, those elements are shattered and reconfigure into something stranger: a story in which a dreamlike haze settles over the proceedings, and where a selection of disconcerting works of art establishes a […]