When I think of mumblecore, I think of Dick Tracy and pornography, low budget films, naturalistic performances, Andrew Bujalski, and pimples. We never set out to make any particular type or genre of film. We just wanted to make our film.
Founded in 1974, FC2 is one of America’s best-known ongoing literary experiments and... more
Here's the full disclosure: A few months ago, Kevin... more
Earlier this year, Tobias Carroll interviewed me and asked, “Your previous book, How to Predict the Weather, had a blurb... more
A few months back, I got the opportunity to (once again) indulge the teenage... more
let’s start with my most pressing question, one you haven’t answered IRL: WHY DID YOU TURN DOWN BRAD LISTI?
And here comes this very small girl – this fairly attractive small girl – getting real thug with me suddenly. Suddenly thug. This petite white girl getting suddenly thug. And she physically pushed me saying “Wrong fucking pile!” She was angry about this pile.
Shane Jones’s Crystal Eaters begins as a countdown. The chapter numbers start at 40 and irregularly... more
Sean Kilpatrick: If you and I could be said to exist outside ye old literary camps, and I think our flags remain hygienic... more
Following his debut collection, Rabbit Punches (Low Fidelity Press, 2006), Neighbors of Nothing (Dzanc, 2013) marks Jason... more
Jenny Offill is the author of Last Things, and most recently, Dept. of Speculation. In the words of Michael... more
Once I was cool, things would be easy. I’d know how to put on eyeliner correctly. I’d know what music to like. I‘d... more
But almost everyone is better to party with than writers. Like cops. Cops have way better stories than writers do.
Rauan has died before now. This revelation was not something divulged one evening when the blood had cooled and certain admissions... more
We need to leave room for bad days. But we also need to be brave enough to call people out. More understanding. Less fear. If I had a gospel, this is what I would preach—the gospel of tender rage. It’s not the same as punk rock, but it’s close.
Jim Ruland talks with J. Ryan Stradal about his new collaborative book Giving The Finger, the memoirs of Bering Sea... more
Mary Miller gets inside heads. I mean this in a non-creepy, invasive way, of course. It's a gift—some writers do... more
This one's massive. We're just going to get right into it.
Kyle, our friend, is the author of the new collection,... more
Benjamin Percy is the author most recently of the novel Red Moon (out this month in paperback), as well as... more
Here we collect a bunch of answers from the interviews we ran in 2013 that we think might serve you as inspiration and writerly... more
Delaney Nolan is the newest kid on the block. The one everyone whispers... more
Gabriel Blackwell’s been busy. In the past two... more
1. Prayer, according to the Encyclopedia of Occult and Parapsychology, is a “means for humans to make contact... more
Writers in M.F.A. programs assume, and are often told, that teaching means time away from... more
Hobart: We’ve seen each other at the last couple Mission Creek festivals in Iowa City, and it was there that we got to... more
A 400-page collection of poems in fours sections: Nicki Minaj Songs, Bob Dylan Songs, Elliott Smith Songs, and 90s Riot Grrrls Songs.
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FOUR NEW ESSAYS BY CHLOE CALDWELL! Plus the original essays that made you fall in love with Chloe!
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Saul Stories is a linked collection that explores the relationships between a forty-year-old female artist, her teenaged daughter, and her daughter's friends. With ferocious realism, the book interrogates how children of differing classes and races are treated in the U.S., and the salacious and skeptical ways the current culture views cross-generational friendships. But most potently—in narratives taking place in Denny's and movie theatres and living rooms and cars—Saul Stories wonders what it means to be a woman and an artist and a mother, all at once.
