Dan Chaon in conversation with Max Rivlin-Nadler Dan Chaon is the author of two novels and two short-story collections. A National Book Award finalist, his most recent novel, Await Your Reply, was described as “ambitious, gripping and unrelentingly bleak.” Sometimes, Chaon writes about men who like to drink beer and look at fires. Sometimes, Chaon […]
“At one time or another, Heribert and Humbert may be in the same bed, with the same woman, having the same dream.”
“In Zero History, the future feels more like the now than ever before.”
Unlike the repetitive flow of water, which can both deposit and erode, the novel’s mantras neither build nor deconstruct.
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
“The poignancy and instant gratification of a short story collection, with all the depth of one of the best and most surprising full length novels in recent memory.”
Super Sad True Love Story – Gary Shteyngart
“Shteyngart is Saul Bellow’s closest relative: the guardian of both the immigrant novel and the American novel, a writer of prose as moving and precise as any currently being written.”
The More I Owe You – Michael Sledge
“Sledge’s mistake is in trying to get so close to Bishop he loses her altogether.”
Leslie Jamison in conversation with Max Rivlin-Nadler Leslie Jamison has an MFA from Iowa, is working on a PhD from Yale, and has published a sensitive and complicated novel called The Gin Closet. Her writing has appeared (or shortly will) in The Believer, Vice Magazine, A Public Space, and Black Warrior Review. The paperback version […]
The Year in Review For the next three weeks we’ll be publishing reviews of books published last year and interviews with writers whose work we admire. This isn’t meant to be a “Best of” list or a comprehensive account of the year in literature; instead, we think of these reviews as a kind of narrative […]
The Lonely Polygamist – Brady Udall
“The Lonely Polygamist is a darkly funny family drama at turns devastating, thoughtful, hilarious and sublime.”