In our weekend reading: new work by Kate Zambreno and K Chess, Jennifer Egan interviews Terese Svoboda, and more.
Morning Bites: K Chess, Revisiting “From Hell,” Tochi Onyebuchi, Steven Hall’s Latest, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with K Chess, revisiting “From Hell,” and more.
Afternoon Bites: Mitchell S. Jackson, Dror Burstein’s Latest, K Chess Excerpted, Infinite Spirit Music, and More
In our afternoon reading: excerpts from books by Mitchell S. Jackson and K Chess, a review of Dror Burstein’s new novel, and more.
An Elliptical Collision of Worlds: K Chess’s “Famous Men Who Never Lived,” Reviewed
Metaphors are a tricky thing. In the sense of K Chess’s novel Famous Men Who Never Lived, I mean that literally: its central conceit eventually turns out to be a sort of magic trick, in the sense of misdirection and revelation. At the heart of Chess’s book is a displaced population: a group of residents from a parallel Earth who find themselves refugees in a familiar place: contemporary New York. (For this reader, it was very familiar: lengthy sequences play out in several locations less than a mile from my apartment.) But while this idea might seem like grounds for a sweeping, thematically resonant work of fiction challenging readers’ ideas about refugee narratives, that’s not exactly what Chess is after here.
Morning Bites: Sophia Shalmiyev, Maryse Meijer’s Latest, K Chess Interviewed, and More
In our morning reading: reviews of books by Sophia Shalmiyev, Richard Chiem, and Maryse Meijer; an interview with K Chess; and more.
Vol.1 Brooklyn’s March 2019 Book Preview
What literary delights does March bring? A number of books we’ve been awaiting eagerly for years, for one thing, including new works by Mitchell S. Jackson and Seth Fried. A host of ambitious literary debuts as well — and a number of collections of short fiction that push at the limits of storytelling. Here’s a look at some of the March books we’re looking forward to the most.
Afternoon Bites: K Chess, Juliet Jacques on Art, Ilana Masad Fiction, Pavement Revisited, and More
In our afternoon reading: a review of K Chess’s new novel, stories by Ilana Masad and Robert Lopez, and more.