Debut novelist Brian DeLeeuw just published In This Way I Was Saved, a chilling mystery that is also a sublime work of fiction; a terrifying genre tale that is also a look inside the author’s worldview. (Think human porosity, epic loneliness, and tyrannosaurus spit.) DeLeeuw, currently working as an editor at Tin House, talks to longtime friend Eva Hagberg about coming up with ideas, writing what you know, and the existential crisis of solitude. Read More »
The Fiction Fix is your weekly dose of short story. If that’s not your drug of choice, too bad: consider it medicine. Every week, we’ll scour the literary magazines you don’t have time to read, online and in print, and let you know where to find one story worth reading.
We’ve been meaning to tell you about Pasha Malla‘s story collection, The Withdrawal Method, for a while now.It’s good and weird and a little imperfect in that way that writers sometimes are before they hit it exactly right and publish something that blows your mind. Read More »
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