In our weekend reading: an interview with Cat Fitzpatrick, writings about soccer, and more.
Sunday Stories is taking a break this week; normal posting will resume on Monday.
In our morning reading: interviews with Brian Evenson and Paula Bomer, jazz-metal band Painkiller returns, and more.
In our afternoon reading: the return of Souled American, an interview with Sam Amidon, and more.
In our morning reading: exploring László Krasznahorkai’s new book, Brian Evenson on horror, and more.
In our afternoon reading: a playlist from Christoph Dallach, fiction by Brian Evenson, and more.
In our afternoon reading: notes on Bennett Sims’s new book, an interview with Carrie Brownstein, and more.
In our afternoon reading: Brian Evenson fiction, previewing the rest of 2023 in books, and more.
Who was the first storyteller to level up the haunted house? To put it another way: tales of houses haunted by restless spirits are unsettling enough. Who was the first person to see a haunted house as a place where existence itself could become malleable? As a concept, you can see wildly different manifestations of it in Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel House of Leaves and Dan Watters and Caspar Wijngaard’s comic book Home Sick Pilots. And then there’s Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless, which also nestles a kind of relentless, indescribable horror between the four walls of a home — but also finds a way to tap into some of the most urgent themes of the present moment.