Lynette D’Amico & Nathan Poole
I really want to address and uphold in fiction the idea that human suffering is inherently meaningful. I think this is why the aesthetic idea of pathos arises so readily from our earliest stories.
Warren has always identified as black, although he could easily be mistaken for white. His daughter has been raised Jewish but now learns of her own black identity.
Three Moments of an Explosion – China Miéville
Miéville has always been interested in more than simply making us shiver.
You Can Now Buy the Very Own Pants of the World’s Worst Artist
Would you pay $2,500 for a pair of pants worn by the world’s worst artist?
Garments Against Women – Anne Boyer
What’s the difference between wide hope and desperation? I was trying to hold everything together, all at once.
The Dirty Dust – Máirtín Ó Cadhain
There are no philosophers or historians in the dirty dust, only gossips and fabulists.
Thirlwell’s achievement is in creating a character who is difficult — nay, impossible — to like, and yet, like Humbert Humbert, propulsive.
In that day and age the only writing that was considered serious was the novel. To be a literary figure, to be a literary artist, to have literary pretensions of any kind, one had to write a novel.
The prose does quick, good work. But it’s an uncomfortable consciousness to inhabit for long, sad-making and stomach-turning.
Dreamlike and horrifying, The Vorrh is permeated with an ominous power.