“It’s like a beautiful dusty old postcard you’d find in a junk store:” London ninety years ago in color. ANNOUNCING THE FIRST ANNUAL BONE BOUQUET EXPERIMENTAL PROSE AWARD! Submit now, ladies! Every noise at once: where would you hang out on this genremap? Who’s beat this editor to naming something “funeral doom?” Announcing Dorothy, a […]
The only proper end, the one that will carry you out into the world, is the one that comes right where it’s needed — it might be a beat sooner than you’d prefer and certainly sooner than expected. Good endings create art that topples expectations. When they drag on they unravel, untether everything the film has worked […]
“Everything started when I contacted writer-director Fede Alvarez through Facebook to introduce myself and my music.” –Roque Baños There is a new Evil Dead film out, and with it, a new score. The composer is Roque Baños, who is most definitely not new to the game — with credits you may recognize such as The […]
[Continued from Part 1] In this context, is serious fiction relevant? What I think a lot of people find distressing is not even what is lionized in our culture, but how few books get to really be presented to the public. It’s not that it’s this book, it’s that this is the only book that is important this season, because […]
You get stories that weave in and out of each other and contradict each other and create new narratives. That’s more exciting to me than one long story with a message of, say, capitalism is bad or war is deplorable. We know that — let’s dance with those concepts and see what else happens. I’ll […]
