Thoughts on the new edition of Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl, an interview with Jen Doll, Courtney Maum on Catherine Lacey’s debut novel, why Borges hated soccer, and more.
New writing from Karl Ove Knausgård and Tyler Coates, a look at food memoirs, Sheila Heti and Kate Zambreno discuss social media, and more.
This afternoon: the most anticipated indie press titles of 2014, Manuel Gonzalez on his writing routine, Chelsea Wolfe and King Dude team up, Kate Zambreno on Dept. of Speculation, and more.
Call 2014 a big year for Kate Zambreno: this June, her novel Green Girl will be reissued by Harper Perennial (note the new cover above), followed by a November release for her next book, titled Book of Mutter. For those of you who like your writing challenging, searing, and essential, this is likely a good year for you as well.
I have been thinking that the books I love the most are ones that possess somehow a tenderness as well as something else, something like grotesqueness. So many texts I read this year circled around trauma and love and loss, but in surprising and original and unsentimental ways. I read so many violently gorgeous books this year, some are ones I kept on hearing about for years, like three beautiful books of obsessive circlings, Lydia Davis’ The End of the […]
This afternoon: an early Glenn Branca album gets the deluxe reissue treatment, new fiction from Norman Lock, the stories that terrified you as a child are coming to the screen (kind of), a new T. Cooper essay, and much more.
Chatting with the editor of The Antarctic Sun. Paul Constant on Kate Zambreno: “Heroines is a bookshelf’s worth of nonfiction books layered one over the other.” “But books aren’t products, they’re art — except when they’re mostly just products, which is often. Or when they’re to some extent both, which is always.” Emily Gould has some wise things to say about Book^2 Camp. The Thermals have a new album. Desperate Ground, due out in April. Related: our managing editor’s thoughts on their […]
“Panter’s famous ratty line provides a restless urgency to scenes of kinetic city life, but his immense talent in these early strips is in suggesting atmospheric detail through linework that, like the terrain it depicts, is a blend of multiple sources.” Nicole Rudick reviewed Gary Panter’s Dal Tokyo for the Los Angeles Review of Books. We’re really enjoying this Paris Review series on soccer in Montenegro. And while we’re looking at terrific writing on soccer, we should also mention Tom Mitchell’s piece […]