In our morning reading: interviews with Eileen Myles and Robert Kloss, new writing from Lynne Tillman, Lincoln Michel’s book trailer, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Mitchell S. Jackson, Carrie Brownstein’s Memoir, Marlon James Recommends Fiction, Neighborhood Bars, and More
In our afternoon reading: new nonfiction from Mitchell S. Jackson and Jason Diamond, Greil Marcus on Carrie Brownstein’s memoir, Marlon James recommends novels, and more.
Notes on the Unlikely Gothic
Unsettling, atmospheric fiction can come in a number of forms. Sometimes the dread is psychological; sometimes, it’s entirely psychological. That isn’t to say that the lines can’t be blurred–over a century ago, The Turn of the Screw illustrated that there’s abundant tension to be mined from the spaces and ambiguities between the two.
#tobyreads: Intrusions of the Miraculous and the Strange
I’ve spent a fair amount of time on trains in the last few weeks. There’s something appealing about passing through an unfamiliar landscape–or even in seeing how a familiar one has changed, either simply over time or through the effects of the present season. And there’s a part of me that would love to look out of the window and see something strange and uncanny in the distance; something unreal in the middle of the mundane. Though I haven’t played […]