GIANCARLO DITRAPANO
Friday Tyrant - Alex Balk Freaks Out
Remember when Gawker was really good? When Balk was writing there? Amid all the morally ambiguous snark, Balk's heartbeat, under all of that, was the most human thing on there that you could almost kind of hear.
Friday Fiction From The Tyrant
Tyrant Books is in talks right now to make this thing a book. It will be a helluva book. This is just a sampling. Enjoy.
NY Tyrant: Robert Glück Makes You Blow Him
Check this story real quick. It is super short and has maybe one of the best lines I have ever come across in it. You might be able to tell which one. Maybe not. You heard of Robert Glück? You should have.
NY Tyrant: Sheila Heti's Brother's Nuts
I met Sheila Heti one night at her reading series "Trampoline Hall." This was when we were working on the first issue of the Tyrant and she was gracious enough to give us a story for it. Which really is gracious.
NY Tyrant: Blake Butler
You've either heard about this guy and already love him, or you'll hear about him soon enough.
NY Tyrant: Rachel Sherman's Last Will
This is the last you'll be hearing from the New York Tyrant until after the break so to keep with the tradition of year-end lists, I am giving you a life-end list. This is the first story we published of Rachel Sherman's and is my personal favorite.
NY Tyrant: Secret O'Hara
Some stories need no introduction, and some mornings you can't find the will or strength to write one.
NY Tyrant: Another Person Who Was Smart and Got Out Quick
Breece D'J Pancake is the kind of writer that if I'm at a party and I hear his name, I tune out every other sound around me so I can hear exactly what is being said about him.
NY Tyrant: Two by Daniel Grandbois
What do you say I start you out with some short but sweets and we'll ease into this? Here is Daniel Grandbois.