Year in suspense, horror, and the fantastic
Sarah Waters, Victor LaValle, Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender, Kevin Wilson, Brian Evenson, and Nick Antosca are among the year’s Shirley Jackson Award nominees.
Sarah Waters, Victor LaValle, Jonathan Lethem, Aimee Bender, Kevin Wilson, Brian Evenson, and Nick Antosca are among the year’s Shirley Jackson Award nominees.
“Don’t read the back. Don’t read the introduction by a noted scholar. Especially don’t look at the cover.” Jack Pendarvis reads Wuthering Heights, wants to build house in Emily Brontë’s brain.
Tom Wolfe’s op-ed reminds Jack Pendarvis of the story that Harriet Beecher Stowe once broke into Mark Twain’s house in the night and started playing “Onward Christian Soldiers.”
Charles McGrath, who edited Muriel Spark at The New Yorker, offers a mixed review of Martin Stannard’s Spark biography.
Narrative reprints my 2008 essay, “Conversations You Have at Twenty,” at The Huffington Post.