Reading Is Insane
In his column for Vice, Blake Butler explains the “three, short savage books you have to read.”
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Sweet and Sour
We’ve heard of writing prompts before, but the folks over at Vice are doing something truly different: in a new Flickr-inspired series, Stranger Than Flickton, they give authors five pictures, each of…
The Woman Who Did Not Burn Down New York
For Vice, Catherine Lacey sits down with Renata Adler to discuss Adler’s new nonfiction collection, After the Tall Timber.
The GIF Novel
For Vice, Blake Butler interviews Dennis Cooper about his new Internet novel composed “entirely of terrifying GIFs.”
Masked Calling
Over at Vice, Eric Nusbaum chronicles the life of Padre Fray Tormenta, Texcoco’s resident addict turned priest turned interim luchador enmascarado: In theory, a priest wearing a lucha libre mask…
Closet Gamer
At Vice, Jagger Gravning gives us a profile of Alexey Pajitnov—the man who subverted his KGB-era career, completely changed the interface of digital entertainment, and created Tetris, eventually, when he…
The Thomas Pynchon Myth
Thomas Pynchon is a reclusive author—or so we are told. Vice unearths the origins of Pynchon’s famous isolation, attributing the legend to the Paris Review‘s George Plimpton: It all started…
This Week in Short Fiction
As civil servants in heavily militarized gear keep the Ferguson community under surveillance and the rest of us glued to the Internet for increasingly shocking reports of brutality and awe,…
Sex, Drugs, Rock ‘n Roll, and Bondage
NOFX bassist Fat Mike spoke with Noisey about his S&M lifestyle, a choice often viewed as socially unacceptable. He sees BDSM individuals as facing many of the same challenges as…
Bukowski Demystified
Jonathan Smith from Vice UK spoke with John Martin, Charles Bukowski’s longtime publisher, in an enthralling interview during which Martin, surprisingly, confessed never he had seen the writer drunk once…
Literary Hollywood
Vice just introduced its summer fiction issue, which isn’t necessarily themed around Hollywood but rather written solely by people writing in Hollywood: …we made a long list of our favorite…
Hilton Als on the Vice Podcast Show
If you didn’t get the chance to take part in our Rumpus Book Club chat with White Girls author Hilton Als, don’t worry. Read the transcript, and then check out his…