Interview with Drew Magary
If you missed it yesterday, and you’d like a little context, go back and read JR’s review of The Postmortal. Here’s his chat with Drew Magary: JR: The Postmortal, where did you get the idea to write this novel?…
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Month: October 2011
The Postmortal by Drew Magary
The Postmortal by Drew Magary Penguin Trade Paper Original It isn’t possible to write a post apocolyptic/dystopian novel these days and not be compared to the landslide of books that inhabit that genre. …
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The Next Right Thing by Dan Barden
Because the elevation rises sharply from the shore of Laguna Beach, in Orange County, California, there aren’t that many roads leading in or out of the affluent community of about 20K people.…
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When We Fell In Love – Tyler McMahon
JE: Having grown up in punk bands in early 80s Seattle, and later being intimately involved in the sound and the scene that would be dubbed grunge in the early 90s, I was excited about six months ago when I received Tyler Mcmahon’s How the Mistakes were Made from St.…
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When We Fell In Love – Joan Leegant
Joan Leegant’s Wherever You Go is making the blog rounds now. It’s the story about Israel, Zionism, extremism, faith and family, and the things people are saying about it are very impressive.…
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Attraction by David Long
One of the most important books in my life turned out to be William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity. It convinced me that language was essentially ambiguous and therefore multivalent.…
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Monstress by Lysley Tenorio
From Monstress: Stories By Lysley Tenorio The title of this great first story comes from a hack Hollywood filmmaker who has convinced a beautiful girl from Manila to star in his horror picture.…
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When We Fell In Love – Larry Watson
JE: High atop my reading list is Larry Watson’s American Boy, just released from the superlative Milkweed Editions. American Boy came highly recommended from my pal Benjamin Percy, who had this to say: “There are a handful of writers I push on everyone I meet, and Larry Watson is one of them.…
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We Wanted To Be Writers by Eric Olsen and Glenn Schaeffer
I’m a bit of a star fucker when it comes to writing colonies, and I have to say that this place, the Iowa Writers Workshop, is the wet dream of any wanna-be writer.…
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When We Fell In Love – Anna David
Anna David is the author of the novels Party Girl and Bought, and the editor of the anthology Reality Matters. Falling for Me, her memoir about following the advice in Helen Gurley Brown’s 1962 book Sex and the Single Girl, releases today.…
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Oubliette by David Long
David Long’s story “Oubliette” appears in the current issue of the New Yorker. His prose style is so lucid, so devoid of vernacular cant and style that screams style that’s it’s a pleasure to read.…
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Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman
Schulman read over 70 books as a background to distill into Three Weeks in December. There’s a fine selected bibliography at the end of the book.…
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The Bathtub Spy by Tom Rachman
After stumbling on this story I immediately emailed Tom Rachman and demanded to know if this was the start to his next novel.…
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