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Editorial Outtakes: This Darkness Got to Give

by Dave Housley | July 9, 2018

Editorial Outtakes: This Darkness Got to Give

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

Filed Under: EDITORIAL OUTTAKES, NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Barrelhouse, books, Dave Housley, Editorial Outtakes, hippies, Novels, Vampires

Coddled, Sexting Millennials: Jennifer duBois Interviews Tony Tulathimutte

by Jennifer duBois | February 9, 2016

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

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK Tagged With: books, debut novel, Jennifer duBois, millennial generation, novelists, Novels, Private Citizens, San Francisco, Tony Tulathimutte

That’s When Things Got Weird: A Conversation with Amber Sparks & Lincoln Michel

by Nate Brown | December 22, 2015

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

Filed Under: NOTEBOOK Tagged With: Amber Sparks, autofiction, books, Lincoln Michel, publishing, readers, short fiction, short story collections, slipstream, The Unfinished World, Upright Beasts, writing

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Issue 81

Guest-edited by Fernando A. Flores, featuring new stories by Yvette DeChavez, Julián Delgado Lopera, Carribean Fragoza, Alejandro Heredia, Carmen Maria Machado, Ruben Reyes Jr., and Gerardo Sámano Córdova.

You can preview the issue here.

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Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

Read the winners of the 2024 Insider Prize

By ASF Editors

“Memories are a nuisance,” Peter wrote to one of our writers after reading his short story, “but nonetheless they seem to make us who we are, as this story confirms.” This year’s submissions told many stories burdened with memory, but just as many stared bravely into the face of hope, satirized the state of politics, speculated on the future of the world, or else built entirely new worlds to inhabit. In short, the stories written on the inside reflected the stories we wrote this year on the outside. Stories of human toil and dreams and everything in between.
 

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