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Alexandra Kleeman's debut novel comes out next month. (Photo: Sasha Maslov)
Jul 21

Alexandra Kleeman’s Debut Novel Is the Weirdest Book You’ll Read This Summer

Ms. Kleeman borrowed the title of her first book from a slogan in an ad for the bodybuilder Charles Atlas.
By Matthew Kassel
Atticus Lish, left, and Giancarlo DiTrapano, the editor of Tyrant Books. (Photo by Aaron Adler for The New York Observer)
Nov 19

The Son Also Writes It: Atticus Lish’s Roundabout Path to Literary Success

The bust-filled second floor at the Center for Fiction was at capacity last Thursday to hear a reading by Atticus Lish—an ex-Marine, a translator of technical Chinese texts, and now one of the most acclaimed debut novelists of the year—and at the start of the questions period, an older man raised his hand. He had a shock of white hair and was wearing a cream sweater and asked about chapter 42, specifically about an act of shocking violence that occurs toward the end of the novel. He had two very good reasons to ask about the structure of the narrative of the novel: The old man was Gordon Lish—the man credited for wholly shaping the prose style and feel of Raymond Carver’s oracular stories and in general one of the most celebrated fiction editors alive—and he is also Atticus’s father.
By Asher Brown-Pinsky
Apr 26

Almost Amis

On Monday night, I was on 10th Avenue talking to the biological granddaughter of Brooklyn literary lioness Paula Fox. I
By Christian Lorentzen
Mar 9

Blake Butler and What Happens When a Novelist Lives on the Internet

By Michael H. Miller
Dec 16

Gary Shteyngart Hates the Information Age But Will Autograph Your iPad Anyway

By Nate Freeman
Oct 6

Franzen Glasses Thief Reveals His Identity in Gripping Pulp Crime Narrative

By Nate Freeman
Sep 22

British Novelists Miffed at Books Written in That Gauche Present Tense

By Nate Freeman
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