Stories We Love: “The Climber Room,” by Sam Lipsyte
“Sam Lipsyte drops us right into a room of lack and fear occupied by Tovah Gold”: Mo Daviau on Sam Lipsyte’s “The Climber Room.”
“Sam Lipsyte drops us right into a room of lack and fear occupied by Tovah Gold”: Mo Daviau on Sam Lipsyte’s “The Climber Room.”
“And yet, it works. Not only does it work, it’s essential to the story. The form is the story.” Kent Kosack takes a look at Bernard Malamud’s puzzling POV-shifter, “My Son the Murderer.”
“I’m grateful now for having had so many strange work days and stories to hold on to afterward.” Jason Allen talks with Barrett Bowlin about his debut novel, The East End, out next week from Park Row Books.
“An ocean gyre is a spiral of currents—formed by the combined forces of global wind patterns and the earth’s rotation—that can swivel up to 330 feet below the water, just like a theme is a dynamically layered mass beneath the front story, or surface, of a novel”: Candace Walsh takes an ocean-deep dive into Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being.
“An ocean gyre is a spiral of currents—formed by the combined forces of global wind patterns and the earth’s rotation—that can swivel up to 330 feet below the water, just like a theme is a dynamically layered mass beneath the front story, or surface, of a novel”: Candace Walsh takes an ocean-deep dive into Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being.
“If the end has truly come for the likes of the hoary old patriarchy, then let it happen on Ridker’s watch.” Michael A. Ferro reviews Andrew Ridker’s The Altruists, out now from Viking.
“I thought the time for the book had come and gone, but when I pulled the book out again in 2017, I realized the topic had become relevant again in the intervening years.” Julie Landsdorf chats with Kate Lemery about her debut novel, White Elephant, out tomorrow from Ecco.
“How can I describe my feelings upon reaching this conclusion?”: Jamie Yourdon on Aurelie Sheehan’s “The Nursing Home,” from her new collection, Once into the Night, out from the University of Alabama Press.
“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.
