In our afternoon reading: an excerpt from Magnus Mills’s new novel, adapting Chris Kraus for television, Maris Kreizman on the year’s best books so far, and more.
The Literature of Record Collectors
Magnus Mills is a expert in the surreal and the deadpan: the precise way in which he’s able to juggle observations on quotidian details, workday routines, and intrusions of the bleak, violent, or sinister makes his fiction regularly compelling.