Books
The VICE Podcast - Jonathan Lethem on Radical Politics in America
Jonathan Lethem's most recent novel, Dissident Gardens, is an intimate story about American radicals that spans from McCarthyism to today's Occupy movement.
Foster Huntington Stopped Working for the Man and Started Living in a Van
After quitting his New York-based design job a couple years ago, Foster has been able to live on his own terms out of a couple different vehicles, documenting his life as he goes. He’s traversed many parts of the country surfing, fly-fishing, and...
Burning Bodies and Playing Dead with Jeff Jackson
An Excerpt from Jeff Jackson's New Novel, 'Mira Corpora'
I Went to a Vibe-Tastic Bookstore in the Middle of LA's Woods
Who needs a bookstore with, like, fucking walls and shit? Just put your hand-stitched journals and art projects on a hand-dyed linen blankets in the woods, get some friends together, and BOOM, YOU GOT AN ART-BOOK POP-UP SHOP IN NATURE, SONNNNNNNNNN!
Windows That Lead to More Windows: An Interview with Gary Lutz
Gary Lutz is one of those talents who can write about anything he wants—office supplies, men’s rooms, skin—and still be able to keep you ruminating on any single phrase for hours at a time. His 2007 book Partial List of People to Bleach has just...
Loni Love Talks About Her Weird Real World Guide to Dating
Loni Love's become so well-known among women and gay men for her hilarious routines about sex and romantic relations that she often finds herself bombarded with audience members' relationship questions. Recently, Loni decided it was time to compile her...
The Permutating Brain of Stephen Dixon
Stephen Dixon has published at least 27 books of fiction, yet he has somehow been overlooked as one of the masters of recording how a person thinks, how days go, what it feels like to be alive inside a brain.
Holes and Bodies and Secrets and Skin and Death
Despite all the complaints about the small press being dead, I think more books have come out this summer than maybe ever before. There are so many new books coming out every month you could build a house out of them and bury yourself in it, reading...
The Beatles Are Dead, Fassbinder Is Alive
My favorite music videos were always the ones that looked like the bands had been locked in a house somewhere, forced to take part in a nightmarish Kenneth Anger or David Lynch movie. James Pate’s novel The Fassbinder Diaries feels like that...
All My Favorite Narrators Are Women
I never liked dude-bro narrators like Bukowski’s or Updike’s. There’s something off-putting about voices that seem too male, or at least that flaunt their dick in a way that seems to scream, "I HAVE A SMALL ONE." There are so many female voices that...
Postmodernism and Sumo Wrestlers: An Interview with Joseph McElroy
Joseph McElroy is one of postmodernism’s major players, and at age 82, he's still kicking. His new book, Cannonball, tells the complicated story of an inexperienced photographer, who shoots government staged propaganda during the Iraq War...
Inside the Mind of a Female Pedophile
Less language-heavy than Lolita, more suburban than American Psycho, Alissa Nutting's new novel, Tampa is for certain a book that forces the reader to sit up and recalibrate the shape of their beliefs, while at the same time...