Back in 2011, Jordan Rennert and Patrick Meaney pitched the idea of making a documentary on the writer Neil Gaiman. Their production company Respect Films had done documentaries on cult…
Imagine you have a child who is running, playing, talking, and sleeping normally until he’s cut down in his tracks. His motor skills suddenly deteriorate. He no longer sleeps nights.…
“For a people who are neither Spanish nor live in a country in which Spanish is the first language; for a people who live in a country in which English…
Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin 280 Steps, 2015 206 pages – 280 Steps / Amazon Lately there have been a handful of crime novels and short story collections that dip their…
There are many things that could be said about Brian Keene, and many of them, good and bad, are said online every day. However, this is my intro, so you…
Strange Animals by Chad Kultgen Harper Perennial, 2015 272 pages – Harper Perennial / Amazon The problem with becoming a renowned provocateur is that one must constantly deliver, and Chad…
GI: Sure, that thing about writing what you know is crap, but I have to ask: how many times have you hovered above a situation thinking “I shouldn’t be doing…
Jeremy Robert Johnson is in that very short list of authors I get angry about when folks tell me they haven’t read their work. Fast, unique, incredibly smart, dark, gory,…
Brian Allen Carr is one of the best writers working today. And yes, I’m willing to throw down if you care to disagree on that level. His work is fresh…
Asura Girl by Otaro Maijo Translated by Stephen Snyder Haikasoru, November 2014 – Published in Japan in 2003 300 pages – Haikasoru / Amazon Otaro Maijo’s Asura Girl is the kind of…
Their Days Are Numbered is a new year-long project authored by the collective Entropy community. It is a collaborative online novel written by the Entropy community on a weekly basis.…
JS Breukelaar has a name that’s as awesome as her fiction. When it comes to writing weirdness in a way that it packs as much strangeness as intelligence, there are…
One of the literary projects I’m most excited about for in 2015 is Ladybox Books. A branch of Broken River Books focusing on women, Ladybox was born out of an…
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli Translated by Christina MacSweeney Coffee House Press, May 2014 Coffee House Press / Amazon There’s a young mother in Mexico City who’s writing a novel…