In our afternoon reading: revisiting The Roches, interviews with Kyle Seibel and David Cronenberg, and more.
Presenting the Cover of, and an Excerpt From, Rinny Gremaud’s “Generator”
Today, we’re pleased to reveal the cover art for Rinny Gremaud’s forthcoming novel Generator, translated by Holly James. Scheduled to be published by Schaffner Press on January 7, 2026, the novel tells a story of family secrets and nuclear power.
Social Media Gets (Literally) Wild in This Preview of “That Sexy Bear!”
Comics duo Owlin have drawn critical acclaim for their previous work, including the graphic novel How Do You Smoke a Weed? They’ve returned with a new project with publisher Iron Circus Comics, and this one is an unlikely combination of parkside antics and social media satire. Publisher Spike Trotman described That Sexy Bear! as having “[e]choes of classic mid century cartoons, crossed with 21st century sociopolitical anxiety and TikTok shitposting. It’s a terrible but familiar vision of eking out an existence in an Always Online America.”
Morning Bites: Scaachi Koul Nonfiction, Amber Sparks’s Latest, Lydia Millet on Writing, and More
In our morning reading: new writing by Scaachi Koul, Lydia Millet on writing, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Talia Lavin on Politics, Jeremy Gordon’s Advice, Matthew Specktor Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Talia Lavin and Matthew Specktor, advice from Jeremy Gordon, and more.
We do, we make, we are
Performative, collaborative, immersive: SKIN hits all those marks, marks I didn’t know were there when I first wrote it, when I first began to understand what it might be like to work within a group of passionate people wanting more than anything—or almost anything, their creative and emotional mileage does vary—to make what they see in their minds and feel in their bodies become real: real enough to engage, to terrify, to galvanize an audience, people who came to see something they had never seen before.
Morning Bites: Divide and Dissolve Return, Revisiting Art Spiegelman, Small Presses and Politics, and More
In our morning reading: a new album from Divide and Dissolve, thoughts on the state of small presses, and more.
Weekend Bites: Nettie Jones Revisited, Han Kang’s Latest, Jeanne Thornton’s Fiction, and More
In our weekend reading: thoughts on Nettie Jones’s bibliography, revisiting a Shudder to Think album, and more.
Sunday Stories is off this week; normal posting will resume Monday.