
In our morning reading: thoughts on Don DeLillo, this year’s Guggenheim fellows, and more.

In our morning reading: thoughts on Don DeLillo, this year’s Guggenheim fellows, and more.

In our afternoon reading: checking in with Melvin Gibbs, thoughts on Chloe N. Clark’s new book, and more.

Until earlier this year, the only novel I’d read by the late Todd Grimson was Brand New Cherry Flavor. That book was an absolute headrush, one part bizarre tale of the supernatural, one part cutting Hollywood satire. It was adapted for the small screen a few years ago by Nick Antosca and Lenore Zion; Antosca had long been an advocate for the book, and for Grimson’s work in general. And now there’s a stylish new edition of another one of Grimson’s novels out in the world: Stainless. This is also a story of the uncanny intersecting southern California; it’s also not what you might expect.

In our morning reading: new writing by Isle McElroy and Rax King, a spring book preview, and more.

A Midnight Trip to Matamoros
by Elliott Turner
You turned on the local Fox station for a weather update as you put your espresso maker on the stove. You forgot to turn off the television or change channels before the white man in the bowtie in a clip began to explain what is wrong with America.

In our weekend reading: thoughts on books by Gwendoline Riley and Constance Debré, new writing by Jason Diamond, and more.

Hello, friends. Are you looking for some book recommendations for this month? Because we have some of those. We’ve got novels, we’ve got nonfiction, we’ve got poetry. Dig in!

In our morning reading: fiction by Chloe N. Clark, a new issue of On the Seawall, and more.