FICTION
Publishing in the Age of Blah Blah Blah
- Melville House -- perhaps best known in recent times as the imprint behind Tao Lin's Shoplifting from American Apparel -- recently announced a series ...
01/26/10 - 24 comments
Shoplifting From American Apparel
- At the start of Tao Lin's Shoplifting from American Apparel the protagonist, Sam, happens upon some crass wisdom amid his bored stupor while Gchatting...
09/08/09 - 13 comments
"I Am Not Sidney Poitier"
- Percival Everett's latest novel, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, tells the story of a young man named Not Sidney Poitier. (We'll leave it to you to figure th...
05/29/09 - 15 comments
Eric Bogosian
- Eric Bogosian is a true New York Renaissance man. As a playwright and performer (Talk Radio, subUrbia) and a novelist (Wasted Beauty), he’s renowned...
05/16/09 - 16 comments
Sex, Drugs, India
- Geoff Dyer is an astoundingly prolific author known for his novels (Paris Trance, The Color of Memory) as well as eclectic non-fiction works about eve...
05/04/09 - 3822 comments
From Fiction to Graphic Design, Chip Kidd Does It All
- Chip Kidd is famous. If you ever saw a little indie film called Jurassic Park, you've seen his work. As a designer for Knopf, he designed the iconic...
02/12/09 - 13 comments
"Kill Your Friends"
- John Niven's novel, Kill Your Friends, has been described as a sort of American Psycho for the record industry. Set in the coked-up world of 1990s Bri...
01/09/09 - 0 comments
"Noise"
- Feel like a dose of Sonic Youth without the eardrum-battering assault of Thurston Moore’s guitar? Then pick up a copy of Noise, a brand new antholog...
01/05/09 - 46 comments
Holiday Gift Guide: 2008's Debut Fiction
- 2008 was a fine year for female debut novelists. Here’s three gift-worthy titles in that final shopping stretch before the holidays, including two b...
12/20/08 - 84 comments
Irvine Welsh: Pedophiles Are Very Boring to Write About
- Irvine Welsh’s latest novel, Crime, is a tale of a Scottish cop on vacation in Miami who becomes accidentally entangled with a child sex ring. We sa...
09/20/08 - 41 comments
