Cari Luna talks with Tom Williams, The Raincoats get a 33 1/3, new writing on music from Norman Brannon, an interview with Lauren Cerand, Adrian Van Young on apocalypses, and more.
This afternoon: new writing from Mitchell S. Jackson and Sam Lipsyte, Adrian Van Young on Linn Ullmann’s latest, Father John Misty on writing songs and books, and more.
This afternoon: read Adrian Van Young’s story from Gigantic Worlds, listen to new music from Zachary Lipez’s new band, check out an interview with Gary Shteyngart, hear Ed Champion and Sarah Churchwell talk Fitzgerald, and more.
And sometimes, you want a scary story — or close to a dozen of them. The three books discussed here today — Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, Adrian Van Young’s The Man Who Noticed Everything, and Manuel Gonzales’s The Miniature Wife and Other Stories — balance literary craftsmanship with a knack for the uncanny. Whether evoking quotidian rhythms only to replace them with something more sinister or shifting tales of upset lives into something more structurally ambitious, these books unnerve even as they intrigue.