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When she was seven years old, Lottie killed her first rattlesnake. As long as she could remember, her grandfather had instilled in her that The Good Californian killed the rattlesnake, spared those behind him the danger of snakebite, the venom sapped from their future. She thought it was allegory until she came face-to-Western-face with a Mojave rattlesnake in the scrub out by the foothills.
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Like Fine’s uniquely constructed book, being a mom is to be permanently fractured.
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Julia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
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I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
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Karen Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
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“I see objects and things as reliquaries that can hold stories.”
...moreThe first books of 2016 are rolling off the presses this week, and among them is Samantha Hunt’s third novel, Mr. Splitfoot, which is already earning buzz for its prize-winning potential. It’s a modern gothic ghost story involving meteor craters, conmen, twins who channel spirits, a mysterious aunt who doesn’t speak, and a pregnant woman […]
...moreIn the latest “The Last Book I Loved,” S. Hope Mills tackles the thriller-esque 1959 novel, The Haunting of Hill House. Shirley Jackson’s talents are strong enough to spook even the avowedly un-spookable—that woman, Mills admits, “knew what it meant to be haunted.” And Heather Partington reviews Maude Casey’s novel inspired by the true story of a 19th century […]
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