A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee
Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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Join NOW!Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
...moreThis collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
...moreKaren Tucker discusses her debut novel, BEWILDERNESS.
...moreLauren Oyler discusses her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS.
...moreJennifer Pashley discusses her new novel, THE WATCHER.
...moreTrauma’s wing conceals and reveals.
...moreLeah Hampton discusses her debut collection, F*CKFACE AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreAimee Liu discusses her new novel, GLORIOUS BOY.
...moreDonna Hemans discusses her new novel, TEA BY THE SEA.
...moreJulian K. Jarboe discusses EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...more“I am the salt; the stories are the food.”
...more“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
...moreThen a light turns on and a panic sets in, like noise: unassailable, unnameable.
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his new book, CLEANNESS.
...moreFrances Badalamenti discusses her debut novel, I DON’T BLAME YOU.
...moreJoel Mowdy discusses his debut story collection, FLOYD HARBOR.
...moreChloe Aridjis discusses her forthcoming novel, SEA MONSTERS.
...moreAnjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
...moreTHERE THERE does not settle, it unsettles.
...moreKristen Arnett discusses her debut collection, Felt in the Jaw, how place informs writing, and deciding to hold her book release party at a local 7-Eleven.
...moreBonnie Jo Campbell discusses her collection Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, the natural world as a character, and finding writing from the male point of view easier.
...moreThe way I think about my writing is similar to the way I think about my kink—both have to do with history and the ethics around appropriation.
...moreClarence Major discusses his new collection Chicago Heat and Other Stories, the artist’s role in politics, Donald Trump and race relations, and Paris in the good old days.
...moreLeah Kaminsky’s debut novel, The Waiting Room, depicts one fateful day in the life of an Australian doctor and mother, Dina, living in Haifa, Israel. Dina is trying to maintain normalcy as she goes about her work as a family doctor, cares for her son, and fights to preserve her faltering relationship with her husband, […]
...moreFor the Los Angeles Review of Books, Stephen Kessler takes us through a pantheon of his favorite Los Angeles landmarks. He writes: Buildings are constructed and routinely erased, yet they remain implanted in the native’s mind like seeds of some vaguely remembered myth. Structures I frequented in formative days at times return, as here, to […]
...moreIt’s July, and the summer issues of literary magazines are rolling off both the physical and cyber presses, including Virginia Quarterly Review, which this week shared a story from its summer print issue online. In “Dixon” by Bret Anthony Johnston, author of the bestselling novel Remember Me Like This and the award-winning collection Corpus Christi, […]
...moreSwati Khurana talks to the author of The Pathless Sky, a love story centered around place, the state’s authority, statelessness, and geology.
...moreHarry Merritt writes for The Awl on the history of Eastern Europe as the traditional home of villainy, particularly in comic books and their cinematic universes.
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