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Scott Cheshire's 'High as the Horses Bridles'
via Electric Literature
‘High as the Horses’ Bridles’ is a torrential debut novel. It’s bold. It’s substantive. It’s formally inventive. Our Interview Editor Scott Cheshire talks about his new novel with J.T. Price.
Scott Cheshire's 'High as the Horses Bridles'
via Electric Literature
‘High as the Horses’ Bridles’ is a torrential debut novel. It’s bold. It’s substantive. It’s formally inventive. Our Interview Editor Scott Cheshire talks about his new novel with J.T. Price.
Summer Reads!
Jeff Vandermeer, Rivka Galchen, Ben Lerner, Herman Koch, Jean Rhys, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Our editors share what they’ll be reading this summer.
Summer Reads!
Jeff Vandermeer, Rivka Galchen, Ben Lerner, Herman Koch, Jean Rhys, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Our editors share what they’ll be reading this summer.
In Conversation with Alena Graedon
Interviewed by Karissa Chen
“I kept being both exhilarated and creeped out as all these things I’d written into early drafts, and that I thought were either totally fantastical or very far in the future, kept being released onto the market: iPads, self-driving cars, and new things all the time. Last month, it was an electronic headband that stops migraines. My book kept morphing from science fiction into reality.”
In Conversation with Alena Graedon
Interviewed by Karissa Chen
“I kept being both exhilarated and creeped out as all these things I’d written into early drafts, and that I thought were either totally fantastical or very far in the future, kept being released onto the market: iPads, self-driving cars, and new things all the time. Last month, it was an electronic headband that stops migraines. My book kept morphing from science fiction into reality.”
Anna Whitwham's 'Boxer Handsome'
Reviewed by Lily Meyer
The first page of Anna Whitwham’s Boxer Handsome is what you might expect from a novel about boxing. The protagonist, Bobby “the Yid,” squares off and fights Connor, “the Gypsy Boy.” The scene’s vocabulary belongs to the ring: skip and spar, bags and pads.
Anna Whitwham's 'Boxer Handsome'
Reviewed by Lily Meyer
The first page of Anna Whitwham’s Boxer Handsome is what you might expect from a novel about boxing. The protagonist, Bobby “the Yid,” squares off and fights Connor, “the Gypsy Boy.” The scene’s vocabulary belongs to the ring: skip and spar, bags and pads.
In Conversation with Adam Wilson
Interviewed by Tobias Carroll
“I hate this whole argument about realism, surrealism; this whole genre question. To me, it’s all kind of the same. I think of all writing as a form of communication. Sometimes you can communicate the thing you’re trying to communicate by writing a piece of nonfiction. All art is some form of communication. Sometimes you communicate it by writing a piece of fiction. Sometimes you can only get at an emotional truth by making something up.”
In Conversation with Adam Wilson
Interviewed by Tobias Carroll
“I hate this whole argument about realism, surrealism; this whole genre question. To me, it’s all kind of the same. I think of all writing as a form of communication. Sometimes you can communicate the thing you’re trying to communicate by writing a piece of nonfiction. All art is some form of communication. Sometimes you communicate it by writing a piece of fiction. Sometimes you can only get at an emotional truth by making something up.”
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