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The Fiction Issue 2008

First Novel

How can I describe how it felt to complete my first novel? For me, the moment was a medley of emotion: relief, pride, closure. And sorrow. I was going to miss my quirky band of characters, all their pratfalls and gambling debts and incorrectly made...
Sam McPheeters
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

First They Came for the Ceos

Lisa Carver is the creator of Rollerderby, which, according to a poll we just conducted of the Vice editorial staff, remains to this day the single greatest zine ever made.
Lisa Carver
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Candy-Coated

CM3 (as he likes to be called, which is kind of dumb) is one of the top “weirdos” in the “bizarro” fiction “world.”
Carlton Mellick III
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Martin Amis

Martin Amis is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction. Even if he’d given up putting pen to paper after his third novel, Money, this would be an irrefutable fact.
James Knight, Portrait: Tara Sinn, Photo: Alex Stur
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom is the preeminent literary critic in the world, and as such he is perhaps the last of a dying breed.
Jesse Pearson; Portrait: Tara Sinn, Michael Marslan
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Stille Nacht

Blake is one of the most observant, meticulous authors we know, and he specializes in writing biographies of other writers—a very tricky thing to do well.
Blake Bailey
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

A Conversation With the Porn Rangers

I put my headphones on and began to watch a hirsute man, probably early 40s, receive oral sex from a thin-lipped woman of commensurate age. The byline in block letters read, “BJ From the Wife.”
Jon Benjamin
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Max Brooks

Anybody who cares about the state of the world and what happens to people when disease and wars happen should read World War Z by Max Brooks. It’s a fictional oral history of “the zombie war.”
Andy Capper, Portrait: Tara Sinn, Photo: Dan Monic
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

The Putti

Will Self’s books are about stuff like a woman growing a penis and raping her abusive husband (Cock and Bull). I mean, he’s Will Self. It’s a pretty big deal.
Will Self
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

The Field

A master of the short story, Beattie first gained recognition with Chilly Scenes of Winter and Distortions. She scathingly shredded on yuppies way before the rest of America blamed them for everything.
Ann Beattie
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

Goodbye

Simon Crump was born in Leicestershire. After crawling out of the middle of the Midlands he found himself being an internationally exhibited artist and lecturing in fine art and photography.
Simon Crump
12.2.08
The Fiction Issue 2008

The Defender of Snakes

I thought of her as the defender of snakes. She was a German woman with shaggy, sandy blond hair. The first time I saw her, she was sitting with a group of paragliders at the Friends coffee shop.
Amie Barrodale
12.2.08
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