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When Setting Trumps Character
It begins with a setting. Sometimes it can end there, too—there are works of nonfiction whose purpose is to fully explore a particular part (or parts) of the world. Consider John McPhee’s The Pine...
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Rare Images from the Birth Of Punk
Writing under the nom-de-typewriter “Jonh Ingham” for the weekly music paper Sounds, John Ingham saw The Sex Pistols playing in a strip club in April 1976; soon after, he conducted their first-ever...
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Marriage, Secrets, and Housewives Turned Beasts
When I got Sarah Hall’s new short story collection, Madame Zero, I read it in one day. Where has this writer been all my life? The answer is: in England, publishing book after book and winning all...
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Sensual and Chilling: Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero
“Sarah Hall has created something wholly original. The nine stories span a number of genres, but all combine the surreal and the quotidian to haunting effect. This is a collection that’s easy to...
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30 Dystopian Novels By and About Women
This week marks the release of Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God, a novel that envisions a world in which evolution has begun to reverse itself and women to lose their autonomy. Of course,...
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20 Books That Deserved More Attention in 2017
With a hateful and erratic would-be tyrant consuming all the oxygen in the room, 2017 was a year in which we especially needed books, while books themselves had less air than ever to breathe. I asked...
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Here’s the All-Female Shortlist for the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award
Today, the BBC announced the shortlist for their 2018 National Short Story Award with Cambridge University. Selected from nearly 800 entries by judges Stig Abell (Chair), K J Orr, Benjamin Markovits,...
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Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize
Now celebrating its centenary, the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology, edited by Laura Furman, presents the 2019 winners of the prize for short fiction. The anthology will be published this fall, via...
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Here’s the shortlist for the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award.
The shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award, one of the most prestigious (and richest) awards given to a single short story in the UK, was announced today on BBC Radio 4. “I am inordinately...
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Sarah Hall is the first writer to win the BBC Short Story Award twice.
The BBC Short Story Award, created in 2005 to recognize the short story as an invaluable literary form, is one of the most prestigious prizes for a single short story in the United Kingdom. The honor...
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On the Literature of Rewilding… and the Need to Rewild Literature
We tend to sleep badly on the first night that we sleep somewhere new. Apparently, this is because somewhere in our evolutionary makeup we are playing watchman. Sleeping lightly we are alert to the...
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20 new books to cozy up to this week.
We’re just accepting the fact that the TBR pile is an ever-growing beast, and that we’re never going to catch up, right? This week brings us new titles from Gary Shteyngart, Ai Weiwei, Mario Vargas...
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Perspective, Art, and Humanism: Understanding Resilience with Sarah Hall
Norwich-based Sarah Hall was born and raised in the Lake District. “I wasn’t raised by wolves, but I did grow up raking around outside, overnighting on the moors, swimming in fell pools and interacting...
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Sarah Hall on Creating Female Characters with Agency
Sarah Hall is the guest. Her new novel, Burntcoat, is out now from Custom House. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! From the episode: Brad Listi: So Edith Harkness is...
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