This week Uncanny Valley Press released Leave Luck to Heaven, Brian Oliu’s collection of lyric essays based on “the weird, painful things we made NES games carry for us because we didn’t know where else to put them.” To get a taste for Oliu’s style, check out “Mile Zero,” which will be featured in a different manuscript down the line.
Brian Oliu’s Video Game Essays
A Very Long Conversation
“A good marriage is, I think, a very long conversation.” National Book Award finalist Lauren Groff discusses Fates and Furies at Lit Hub. We have an interview with the author to complement it.
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The Man Behind the Mystery
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Start Again
Lucky Alan, which came out in February, is Jonathan Lethem's first new story collection in more than ten years. He talked with Matt Bell about it in an interview at Salon. "What’s great about short stories is the opportunity to play at reinvention; all those new departures, all those new landings to try to stick," he says. You could also read our review of his novel Dissident Gardens.
Gothic 101
Does your story have a ghost or monster? Does your heroine faint frequently? Then you might be in a Gothic novel. The Guardian has infographics on how tell if you're in a Gothic novel.