…a lot of people get scared when they hear they’re walking over dead people. Although we are all, more or less always walking over a greater or lesser number of...
Sean Hangland—the narrator/non-hero of John Tottenham’s hilarious novel of retail horror and art frustration—has had it. His three or four shifts a week at the ...
A touchstone, in its original use, was employed to compare the quality of gold or silver; in common parlance, it’s an event or object employed to judge highpoin...
I hate Surrealism. I find it tedious, humorless, and hopelessly indebted to Sigmund Freud—a man who did as much to obscure and confuse the inner workings of hum...
A couple definitions of the word daybook: a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred and a diary. Nathan Knapp’s book isn’t exactly eith...
Sometimes a book will paint a person in an entirely new light. Fred Leuchter—the Holocaust-denying, self-taught execution equipment engineer and star of Errol M...
Charles Bukowski called love a dog from hell but Tyler Dempsey shows it to be an animal resilient enough to withstand arctic freezes and the weeks-long days and...
On February 16th, 2021, a writer downloaded FaceApp and fed it some childhood photos. The program alters race, age, and—most crucially, in this case—gender, to ...
Set in a small and haunted New Jersey town, Tobias Carroll’s fourth book (and second novel) is a patchwork portrait that illuminates as much by what it leaves i...
Sean Conroe got me to read Sam Pink’s books and for that, I’m deeply grateful. He talked him up endlessly on his podcast, even had the man himself on as a guest...
Many people have many theories about the unseen and unnamed malevolent force that terrorizes the young people of suburban Detroit in David Robert Mitchell’s 201...