With the arrival of February, it feels like 2020 is getting into high gear, for better or for worse. A cursory glance at the month’s most anticipated new books could best be described as eclectic: there are experimental and transgressive works here, along with career-spanning tomes and thematically ambitious works of fiction. If this is a harbinger of what the rest of the (literary) year looks like, it’s a good omen.
Afternoon Bites: R. O. Kwon, Joel Mowdy’s Playlist, Mike Zapata Excerpted, Vivien Goldman, and More
In our afternoon reading: new writing from R. O. Kwon, interviews with Erin Hosier and Vivien Goldman, and more.