Now that it’s finally Sunday, it’s time to read a new book. Perhaps you’ve noticed how Sunday parks and bars are full of blissed-out readers and lovers of the written word? Please take a hint.
You are encouraged to either procure a book at your local, independently-owned and operated bookstore or go to the library. Now that the San Francisco skies show signs of warming up, I plan on wasting many an afternoon reading a mad zombie-fantasy mash-up novel or some prize-winning French experimental fiction.
This week’s Supplement is chock-full of bizarre and enticing literary delights, including the winner of The Rumpus College Book Review Contest, an interview with Colum McCann and two anthologies about Zombies and Apocalypse! More below!
The Winner Of The Rumpus College Book Review Contest – A review of Pauline Kael’s seminal Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang.
Fubar Nation – A review of Chelsea Martin’s unsettling collection of stories and episodes, Everything Was Fine Until Whatever.
Monster Mash – A review of two recent anthologies of macabre, genre-busting, post-apocalyptic fiction, The Living Dead and Wastelands.
A review of J.M.G Le Clezio’s maddening, experimental masterpiece, The Book Of The Flights.
Measuring The Weight Of Loss – A review of Andrew Michael Roberts’ first full-length poetry collection something has to happen next.
And by all means don’t miss the interview with the Irish writer Collum McCann, Elissa Bassist’s wonderful round-up of McSweeney’s hilarious women, an interview with Virginia Woolf’s nephew and finally a good reason to re-read the late Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski’s The Shah Of Shahs.
