Satin Island

  • Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

    Satin Island by Tom McCarthy

    Jonathan Russell Clark reviews Satin Island by Tom McCarthy today in Rumpus Books.

  • Fragility of Antiquity

    Adam Flemming Petty writes over on Electric Literature about the literature of ruins: This perception of antiquities as fragile rather than permanent, and all the more affecting for their fragility, is common in literature. Writers have often found their imaginations…

  • Facebook and the Avant-garde

    …our Franzen problems, these days, are pretty minor. We don’t have to worry that Chip Lambert’s hand-wringing is going to reinforce the old, realist modes of romantic reaction. But we do have to worry about what happens to attempts to…