She’s also very, you know, embodied. She sweats. She aches. She bloats. She has...
In many ways, Disposable Man is a nod towards this great European tradition.
Although many of Meijer’s characters are grotesque, their cruelty is never unreal...
“So, in a weird way I was flipping the script. The husbands and boyfriends are the sperm donators and support staff, and they’re feeling their marginality.” Laura Catherine Brown chats with Hillary Jordan about motherhood, womanhood, and Made by Mary.
“But for Max, Berlin constitutes a border between what’s he’s comfortable with and what he’s fascinated by and afraid of.” Agata Popeda reviews Michael Levitin’s debut novel, Disposable Man, out from Spuyten Duyvil.
Aaron Brown talks with Chigozie Obioma about his new novel, as well as Igbo history and cosmology, predestination and determinism, narrative construction, and more.
“How the writer views the world, their unique angle of vision, is what can draw us in by inviting us to briefly leave behind our familiar vantage point.” Kent Kosack on the power of observation in Dorthe Nors’s “The Heron.”
“These are stories about hurt.” Michelle Ross navigates the pains and pleasures of Maryse Meijer’s new collection, Rag, out now from FSG.
Yohanca Delgado on characters who want in Chaya Bhuvaneswar’s White Dancing Elephants.
From the Archives: Neelanjana Banerjee talks with Helen Oyeyemi about why she’s drawn to supernatural subjects (but not “magical realism”), why vampire stories are really about race, and how to write stories that will freak your readers out.
In her inaugural interview with women crime writers, Contributing Editor Polly Atwell talks with Amy Gentry about women’s truths, the influence of Henry James, likeability, and her new novel.
“Stanley’s obsession with the confounding space at the center of himself presents itself as a proper noir MacGuffin.” Michael A. Ferro reviews Joseph Scapellato’s The Made-Up Man, out this month from FSG.
“For me, the setting of a novel is the novel in many ways, and it seems right to devote time and space to establishing the geography and history of the place. This forms a frame inside which the rest of the story takes place.” Andrew Michael Hurley talks with Steven Wingate about rural England, the “ghost story” spirit, and developing writerly patience.
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