Emma Straub’s Other People We Married
Emma Straub is best known for her novels, but I came to her by way of this short story collection, as is my preference with new-to-me authors that I’ve discovered…
Consider the Lobster. Please Start Here.
The essays in Consider the Lobster span around thirteen years, and offer thought on the adult film industry celebrating itself, the 2000 primary campaign of John McCain, the sad decline…
Kenzaburō Ōe: Hiroshima Notes
Kenzaburō Ōe published these essays over a short span during and after the twentieth anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. This is not pleasant reading, and if you…
Steven King’s “Guns,” Jon Ronson’s “The Elephant in the Room,” and Amazon Prime Reading
Amazon is now offering Prime Reading to those of us who have capitulated to a Prime membership. It’s quite the collection of free reading material. This is a different beast…
Flooded Kickstarter Needs Your Support!
http://kck.st/2dGtO32 Q&A with Victoria Griffin, Creator of Flooded: A Creative Anthology of Brain Injuries The following is an interview with the woman behind this anthology project -I hope you…
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace is best known for Infinite Jest, but secondarily for his magazine and nonfiction writing. This collection of short stories is neither but is certainly worth the read, especially…
Flooded Anthology Kickstarter
http://kck.st/2dGtO32 Flooded is an awesome anthology project that will feature fiction and creative nonfiction related to brain injuries, and it's currently seeking funding on Kickstarter. I don't promote these kind…
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground represents my transition from the novellas and stories of the heavy-hitter Russians to their longer and more involved work. The first section of Notes is a rebellion…
Mishka Shubaly’s “Beat the Devil” and Amazon Singles
Mishka Shubaly seems to do a bunch of diverse shit. I’d heard him on a podcast a few times before hearing about his whole relationship with Amazon.com as a popular…
Lorrie Moore’s Birds of America
Lorrie Moore is good at writing short stories. This surprises no one, I assume. I had read one or two of her stories in anthologies, but never took the time…