A look back at Elliott Smith’s Roman Candle, interviews with Dolan Morgan and Morgan Parker, podcasting with Scott McClanahan and Noah Cicero, a conversation with Bryan Lee O’Malley, and more.
A Lev Grossman book trailer, an interview with Sarah McCarry, a new poem from Noah Cicero, thoughts on Leonard Cohen and Elena Ferrante, and more.
Catching up with Gary Shteyngart, what Dostoevsky can tell us about social media, Noah Cicero’s latest, an interview with Joanna Walsh, and more.
With pared-down prose and a sense of clarity that would knock a pulp-thriller writer off his feet, Noah Cicero’s descriptions of life in faded industrial cities and their outskirts have stood as some of the most searing fictional works in recent memory. It takes a lot of work to sound this effortless — at its best, Cicero’s fiction sears, featuring stunted lives, frustrated pursuits, and cities that leave their residents eternally stifled. Earlier this year, Lazy Fascist released The Collected Works […]
An interview with Noah Cicero, new music from Mazzy Star, thoughts on the Big Star documentary, Sarah McCarry’s summer reading, and more.
“Before I was finished, a lot of other influences had been mixed in: there’s a little bit of King James Version, some Greek myth, a little bit of Old Norwegian, a smattering of unusual words lifted from nineteenth-century dictionaries, some Cormac McCarthy and Brian Evenson and Hiromi Itō and Christine Schutt, all these writers who work so well at the sentence level, who write so wonderfully about the body.” Matt Bell chatted with Tin House about his new novel In the […]
What does it mean to affix the “alt” tag to something? Is it a reaction? A sign of the changing times? That’s the very question we’re asking about alt lit.