Last year brought with it the news that Teju Cole’s next book would be an essay collection. Now, that essay collection, titled Known and Strange Things, has a cover.
Haunted Patterns on the Cover to Scott Nicolay’s “Noctuidae”
There’s something about patterns that attracts the eye. The cover for Scott Nicolay’s forthcoming novella Noctuidae has them in abundance: a series of squares atop what looks like an old and blurred photo, with a kaleidoscopic take on a sinister-looking moth above it all.
Behold the Dot Matrix Aesthetic of Dolan Morgan’s “Insignificana” Cover
We are big fans of the writings of Dolan Morgan. He’s contributed to Sunday Stories twice, and we interviewed him in 2014 after his first collection, That’s When the Knives Come Down, was released. This year brings with it his second collection, Insignificana, out March 11th on Civil Coping Mechanisms.
Will Oldham Narrates a “Bats of the Republic” Trailer
Zachary Thomas Dodson’s ornately-strucutured novel Bats of the Republic is having a good couple of months: most recently, it was named as one of the competitors in this year’s Tournament of Books. And now there’s a new trailer for it, narrated by one Will Oldham. This isn’t Oldham’s first literary collaboration, either: a couple of years ago, he narrated the audiobook version of Rudolph Wurlitzer’s Slow Fade. (If you’re so inclined, you can also see the video for Bonnie ‘Prince’ […]
Juliet Escoria’s Poetry Collection “Witch Hunt” Has an Unsettling Trailer
Juliet Escoria‘s first collection of poetry, Witch Hunt, is due out in May from Lazy Fascist Press. The first trailer has been released, and it features a collection of seemingly quotidian events that abruptly turn very, very, very bleak. You can watch it here, or below.
A Sinister J.G. Ballard Adaptation Gets a New Trailer
We’re pretty excited about Ben Wheatley’s forthcoming adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s High-Rise. Wheatley’s a filmmaker who can capture the moment where life turns from surreal to nightmarish, which is an essential quality when translating Ballard’s work to the screen. A new trailer has been released for the film; if the first one focused more on the idyllic setting of the film, this one shows the stresses behind it, and suggests the moment when it all begins to fall apart. You […]
Soundtracking Rob Spillman’s “All Tomorrow’s Parties”
Between his work editing Tin House and his dispatches on literature and politics for Guernica, we’re huge admirers of the work of Rob Spillman, so it’s not surprising that we’re excited for his forthcoming memoir All Tomorrow’s Parties, which encompasses his youth and his time spent in a post-Wall Berlin. His publisher recently released a playlist for the book taken from the epigraphs of its chapters, which includes music from Can, Béla Bartok, the Sex Pistols, Billie Holiday, and more. […]
We’re Enjoying the Stylized Cover of Emma Straub’s “Modern Lovers”
Among the books we’re most excited for in 2016 is Modern Lovers, Emma Straub’s forthcoming novel. The cover, from Leah Goren, has just been released, and Entertainment Weekly has a short interview with Straub and Goren about both the novel itself and the process of creating the cover.