Victor LaValle Talks About Horror Fiction, Imaginative Illiteracy, and Lovecraft’s Complicated Legacy Lincoln Michel March 30, 2016 Interviews 2 Comments Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of talking to literary horror writer extraordinaire, Victor LaValle, for Vice about his new Lovecraft-by-way-of-#blacklivesmatter novel The Ballad of Black Tom....
Play Electric Literature’s AWP Bingo Lincoln Michel March 29, 2016 Scuttlebutt Packing your chapbooks, moleskines, and bathing suits for AWP LA? When you get there, be sure to visit us at table 836. You can get 10% off anything from our literary aces playing cards to our The Book Is...
Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 23rd) Lincoln Michel March 23, 2016 Midweek links Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: Should writers reconsider their relationship to publishing? How climate...
Watch Shakespeare Get a Makeover with These Beautiful New Covers Lincoln Michel March 15, 2016 Scuttlebutt 3 Comments It's been 400 years since William Shakespeare died, but his works are still widely read and performed today. To celebrate the Bard's continued relevance, Penguin Books is rereleasing his works with swanky new...
Why Do We Care Who the “Real” Elena Ferrante Is? Lincoln Michel March 14, 2016 Scuttlebutt 7 Comments Elena Ferrante, the author of the internationally-acclaimed and best-selling Neapolitan novels, has a perfectly fine explanation for why she chose to remain anonymous: I will only tell you that it’s a...
Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 10th) Lincoln Michel March 10, 2016 Midweek links Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: A Chaucer scholar analyses the poetry of Donald Trump's Twitter...
Elena Ferrante and Orhan Pamuk among Man Booker International 2016 Longlist Authors Lincoln Michel March 10, 2016 News 1 Comment The Man Booker International Prize has announced the 13 books on the longlist for this year's prize. The list of authors include the pseudonymous Italian author Elena Ferrante and Nobel prize winners from...
George R. R. Martin Announces He’s “Not Dead” After Panicked Fans Confuse Him with The Beatles Producer Lincoln Michel March 10, 2016 News 1 Comment Legendary music producer George Martin passed away at the age of 90 this week. Martin was most famous for his work as "the fifth Beatle," signing the band in their early years and introducing many innovative...
Here Is the 2016 Baileys Prize Longlist Lincoln Michel March 8, 2016 Scuttlebutt The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, formerly the Orange Prize, is one of the most celebrated awards in UK literature. Any woman writer who has published a book in the UK in English in the past year is...
MFA vs. CPU: Another MFA Article Misses the Bigger Picture Lincoln Michel March 7, 2016 Features 4 Comments Every now and then, the literary world likes to take a break from debating whether ebooks are taking over or whether the novel is dead to discuss an even more pressing matter: are MFA programs bad? Of all...
Midweek Links: Literary Links from Around the Web (March 3rd) Lincoln Michel March 3, 2016 Midweek links 1 Comment Looking for some interesting reading to get you through the week? Here are some literary links from around the web to check out: Victor LaValle talks H.P. Lovecraft, racism, and his new Lovecraftian novella...
Stephen King Confirms Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey for The Dark Tower Adaptation Lincoln Michel March 1, 2016 Scuttlebutt 1 Comment Stephen King is one of the most frequently-adapted authors alive, but fans have long been waiting for an adaptation to his epic genre-bending series The Dark Tower. Well, it finally seems to be happening, and...