The last time I spoke with Nick Antosca it was to discuss his second novel Midnight Picnic, a surreal and incredibly powerful ghost story that took a storied form and made it feel utterly contemporary. A lot has changed since then: Antosca has left New York City for Los Angeles; he’s joined the writing staff of Teen Wolf; his first novel Fires was reissued by Civil Coping Mechanisms; and he has a new book out. The title novella of The […]
Afternoon Bites: Nick Antosca on Satire, Rosie Schaap on Soccer Bars, Brian Evenson and Rob Zombie Team Up, And More
Adam Wilson made Electric Literature a mixtape. Also, he weighs in on the eternal Klosterman/tUnE-yArDs debate: “I like Chuck Klosterman a lot, but he’s totally wrong.” (In case you missed it, Joe Winkler reviewed Wilson’s Flatscreen earlier this week.) Roxane Gay puts in her two cents on the whole Franzen/Twitter kerfuffle. The Collagist catches up with Nick Antosca, author of Midnight Picnic and The Obese. Mike Pace, singer/guitarist of the sorely missed Oxford Collapse, is back with a new project, […]
Afternoon Bites: The Low Times Profiled, Bradford Morrow & Peter Straub Get Gothic, Protesting the Whitney Biennial, and More
The Outlet reports on the launch party for issue 15 of A Public Space. “One day I overheard two women who I am pretty sure worked for one of the Condé Nast magazines discussing a coworker who had a weight problem. I remember the conversation was casually vicious. I had an image of the two women being chased by a horde of ravenous obese people, then eaten, and I wanted to write that book.” Nick Antosca provides Book Notes for […]
Afternoon Bites: Beauty Pill, Sharon Van Etten, Emily St. John Mandel, and more
“…I think it should be theoretically possible to take any premise or image or idea as a starting point, no matter how slight, and build an entire novel out of it.” At Small Demons’ blog, Emily St. John Mandel writes about her influences, geography, and more. Do you like smart, intellectual pop music made by folks in Washington, DC? Specifically, the excellent Beauty Pill. The podcast 99 Percent Invisible has details on their latest project. Daphne Carr writes about Sharon […]