Editorial Outtakes is a series in which we publish excerpts from recent books that you won’t find anywhere else because, prior the publication, these sections were cut. This installment of Editorial Outtakes features a deleted scene from fiction writer Dave Housley's new novel, This Darkness Got to Give. In the vein of character-driven contemporary horrors like Grace Krilanovich's The Orange Eats Creeps and A Questionable Shape by Bennet Sims, Housley engages with and subverts what readers may … [Read more...] about Editorial Outtakes: This Darkness Got to Give
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Coddled, Sexting Millennials: Jennifer duBois Interviews Tony Tulathimutte
Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens is a searing and savagely smart dissection of the life and opinions of a group of San Francisco millennials: bipolar autodidact Henrik, ruthless aspiring writer Linda, porn-addicted romantic Will, and hazily embattled activist Cory. With relentless intelligence and wit—and prose that’s earning comparisons to David Foster Wallace—Tulathimutte examines his characters’ anxieties and aspirations, vanities and self-hatreds, and the gap between private … [Read more...] about Coddled, Sexting Millennials: Jennifer duBois Interviews Tony Tulathimutte
That’s When Things Got Weird: A Conversation with Amber Sparks & Lincoln Michel
We've have had the pleasure of reading the work of Amber Sparks and Lincoln Michel for a number of years, and we've published work by each of them as web exclusives in the not-so-distant past. This fall, Michel published his debut collection of short fiction, Upright Beasts, and Sparks's next book, The Unfinished World, will be published in January. We recently emailed both authors to ask about their new books, their writerly obsessions, the year in publishing, and the best things they've read … [Read more...] about That’s When Things Got Weird: A Conversation with Amber Sparks & Lincoln Michel