Desire Makes Storytellers of Us All: Anthropica by David Hollander
What a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
...moreWhat a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
...moreIt was a new world; it was the same world.
...moreWhat does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
...moreAlison Stine discusses her new novel, ROAD OUT OF WINTER.
...moreI won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
...moreI needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.
...moreI’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
...moreHe wonders at how fast it all changed.
...moreKira Jane Buxton discusses her debut novel, HOLLOW KINGDOM.
...moreK Chess discusses her debut novel, FAMOUS MEN WHO NEVER LIVED.
...moreAdam Nemett discusses his debut novel, WE CAN SAVE US ALL.
...morePoet Beth Bachmann discusses her new collection, CEASE.
...moreNothing seems fixed or stable anymore except ongoing instability.
...moreA satiric comic that looks at the grim reality of climate catastrophe through the humorous lens of fashion tips.
...moreI recommend you pull over now. Better yet, I recommend you call in sick and turn your car around. You’re going to want to read this book in one solitary burst…
...moreDue to rising sea levels, most orchards have been flooded. Instead of apple picking, grab a canoe large enough for the whole family and climb aboard.
...moreI used to play a game with myself: who should die first, me or daddy? When I was very little, I could never come up with a good answer.
...moreMatt Kivel discusses his latest release, Fires on the Plain, the ways in which cinema inspires his music, and how he reads his critics.
...moreFour syllables, ever so lightly punctuated by the softest consonants, announcing a tragic, apocalyptic shift in global time.
...moreWant to craft spy thrillers? Learn science writing. The science infusing Fantastic Beasts, and where to find it. This is why you talk like a cowboy. Turn off Beyoncé if you want to actually write today—lyrics hurt productivity.
...moreSometimes, literary magazines fold. It happens all the time because of funding, or manpower, or editorial differences. Usually, print back issues remain for sale and online content is preserved indefinitely, or at least until someone forgets to renew the domain. But this does not seem to be the case with Black Clock, the respected literary […]
...moreTrue, a marital murder-suicide does take place on the way, but it’s an act of calculated altruism, done for the good of the group. For the New Yorker, Alexandra Schwartz reviews Lionel Shriver’s twelfth novel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047.
...moreFacial recognition technology is a little racist. Two writers talk about the end of the world and more importantly, the end of social media. Robots are just babies—tiny, terrifying babies. Nabokov and butterfly sex.
...moreIf I was a ghost, I wouldn’t want nothing to do with the world that killed me.
...moreAuthor and poet Paul Kingsnorth talks about writing an entire novel in a “shadow-tongue” of Old English, and what that taught him about our contemporary world.
...moreLegendary technomodernist William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, talks about his latest book, The Peripheral, predicting the future, and how writing about Silicon Valley today feels like his early work.
...moreIn the distance between me and the story, I can see all the ways I would have to change without technology, because of all the ways technology has already changed me.
...moreThis is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a bronchial spasm. For the Public Domain Review, Brett Beasley examines Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City, widely considered to be the first science fiction novel about an urban apocalypse.
...moreAt Ploughshares, Matthew Burnside assembles a literary dream team for the impending zombie apocalypse.
...more(n.); the last thing, as a theological reference to the climax of history at Judgment Day; the day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all human beings; from the ancient Greek eskhatos (“end”) “My mind moves toward apocalypse fictions the way we think about a forgotten friend, […]
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