Dances with Concepts: a Conversation with Sam Lipsyte [Part 1 of 2]
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 […]
Review (of sorts): The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
“Thinking is the first poison…” I am humbled and, to be honest, a bit afraid. I don’t quite know how to go about writing this review and am frightened of its implications. For in writing about it, I am in fact destroying it – if ever so slightly – limiting the ways in which you […]
The Flame Alphabet, Cartoon-Style
An animated version of Ben Marcus’s staggering novel The Flame Alphabet, released by Knopf Doubleday (the book was too). Check it. Read it. In either order.
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