The summer continues. Whether your preferred mode of summer reading involves being stretched out on a beach, huddled in front of an air conditioner, or resplendent on a park bench, August offers even more notable titles to add to your (literary) tote bag of choice. From smart writing on music to eagerly-anticipated debuts to fiction that offers a memorable perspective on pressing issues of the moment, there’s a lot of intriguing-looking books due out this month. Here’s a look at […]
Afternoon Bites: Janice Lee Nonfiction, Mark McCoy on Horror, Fiction About Fame, Justin Taylor on Eliot Weinberger, and More
In our afternoon reading: new writing from Janice Lee, Lindsay Hunter, and Alice Sola Kim; Justin Taylor on the work of Eliot Weinberger; and more.
Morning Bites: PEN/Faulkner Award, Maggie Nelson Revisited, Lindsay Hunter, James McBride on James Brown, and More
In our morning reading: James Hannaham wins the PEN/Faulkner Award, thoughts on books by Maggie Nelson and James McBride, and more.
Morning Bites: Gregory Pardlo, “The Strangest” Excerpt, Kate Christensen Interviewed, Lindsay Hunter Fiction, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with Gregory Pardlo, new writing from Lindsay Hunter and Alexander Chee, an excerpt from Michael J. Seidlinger’s new novel, and more.
Morning Bites: Reading Mary Gaitskill, Kevin Young Interviewed, Grant Morrison’s Latest, and More
In our morning reading: thoughts on Mary Gaitskill, friendship in fiction, new work by Grant Morrison, an interview with Kevin Young, and more.
Morning Bites: Lindsay Hunter on Chicago Lit, Catapult Debuts, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Capsule Hotels, and More
In our morning reading: Lindsay Hunter on Chicago’s literary scene, thoughts on Kelly Link’s new book, new nonfiction from Rebecca Mead and Aaron Gilbreath, an interview with Chastity Belt, and more.
Morning Bites: New Jami Attenberg Writing, The Year in Essays, Lindsay Hunter’s Latest, Meredith Graves Interviewed, and More
Celebrating Philip K. Dick’s birthday, delving into the year in essays, Jami Attenberg on the time she pretended to be a psychic, an interview with Meredith Graves, and more.
“My arms feel buoyant and empty”: Lindsay Hunter on Poetry and Noir’s Influence on “Ugly Girls”
There’s something really dirty about Lindsay Hunter‘s debut novel, Ugly Girls. It’s more the traditional dirt, however, the type that’s of the earth, and that leaves all kinds of stuff under your fingernails. The setting and the characters–a bunch of people who don’t seem to be going anywhere, who live in some Nowhereville, USA type of place–combined with Hunter’s perfect prose leading into a curse word or a misspelled chat or text here or there, help give Hunter’s first novel […]