Have you ever felt an essential sense of wrongness in everyday life? Disorientation can be a powerful literary tool, and it’s one that the late German author Wolfgang Hilbig understood well. In his introduction to Wolfgang Hilbig’s 2002 collection The Sleep of the Righteous, László Krasznahorkai described Hilbig’s vision as one where “only the weak, the sensitive, those incapable of bargaining and in no way heroic, can sense the chaos and the surrealism.” These stories deal with fragmented psyches, everyday […]
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In our morning reading: new nonfiction from Matt Johnson, the Man Booker International Prize is announced, BAM gets a new director, xTx and Noah Cicero in conversation, and more.
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A pair of interviews with Saeed Jones, the trailer for Inherent Vice, new fiction from László Krasznahorkai, notable literary Twitter feeds, and more.