“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 […]

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Vol.1 Brooklyn’s November 2014 Books Preview

As the year turns the corner into November, the array of fantastic, challenging books available to read continues. Our picks for our most highly-anticipated books for the month include investigations of the art world and irreverent takes on literature; a novel of grief and the open road and a novel of families falling apart; the return of one of America’s greatest living authors and a collection of some of the best essays written in the last few decades. Alternately: it’s a particularly […]

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