Out this week: Catapult by Emily Fridlund; Ferocity by Nicola Lagioia; The Power by Naomi Alderman; Crimes of the Father by Thomas Keneally; A Scattering and Anniversary by Christopher Reid; The Unstill Ones by Miller Oberman; The Secret Life by Andrew O’Hagan; and Devotions by Mary Oliver. For more on these and other new titles, go read our most recent book preview.
Tuesday New Release Day: Fridlund; Lagioia; Alderman; Keneally; Reid; Oberman; O’Hagan; Oliver
Sex, Violence, & Satire Contest
Mixer publishing is running a "Sex, Violence, & Satire" contest with a $1,000 prize, and there's still time to enter. So, if you've been chewing on the idea of writing a story containing "sex and satire," "violence and satire," or "sex, violence, and satire," then consider this motivation to finish it up.
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Responding to Sexual Violence
“Eventually, the judicial bureaucracy begins to seem almost as destructive as the rapist.” Domenica Ruta writes on Emily Winslow’s Jane Doe January and Joanna Connors’ I Will Find You, two books that probe our culture’s failure to address sexual violence. Pair with a piece on poetry as a response to sexual violence.
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Goosebumps Turns Twenty
Two decades after the release of the first Goosebumps book, Jen Doll checks in with R. L. Stine.
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The Vollmann Wears Prada
Just in time for the publication of Kissing the Mask, it's...Wilhelmina T. Vollmann! If this were a TLC album, it would be called Scarysexyapposite. (via)
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Kanye West, Philosopher + Author
Kanye West is back on Twitter. And in literary news, he's decided to write a philosophy book, Break the Simulation and publish excerpts (or maybe the entire thing) on Twitter. There appears to be no release date or publisher attached so stay tuned.
Tuesday New Release Day: Bezmozgis, Dyer, Professor X, Pletzinger, Still
New this week is David Bezmozgis's The Free World, the new Geoff Dyer collection of criticism Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (reviewed here today), "Professor X's" higher ed expose In the Basement of the Ivory Tower, Funeral for a Dog, a German novel in translation by young author Thomas Pletzinger, which John Wray has blurbed as "ballsy," and Chinaberry, a posthumously published novel by the Appalachian author James Still.