The Fiction Issue 2008

  • Reviews

    Some books make us smile, others make us vomit.

  • Ivor Cutler

    In a perfect world everyone’s grandfather would be a kindly yet razor-sharp old goof just like Ivor Cutler (and we’d also be able to fly).

  • 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.

  • Harry Crews

    Harry Crews had just about every job a man might have to take in his lifetime—from working in a cigar factory all the way up (or maybe down) to teaching creative writing.

  • Wild America

    Wells has written for Harper’s, the New Yorker, the Washington Post Magazine, and many more.

  • Bad Dog

    Ferrigno is best known for his crime novels. After college he spent half a decade as a professional gambler until getting down to brass tacks and writing ten novels.

Annons
  • 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.

  • How To Look Amazing In Photographs

    Another up-and-comer, Amanda sent us something that can’t be translated into our non-English editions because it’s an extended riff on the pronunciation of the word “douche.”

  • Ursula K. Le Guin

    Any major science-fiction gourmand will tell you that Ursula K. Le Guin is among the most compelling writers living today.

  • The Earthquake In Chile

    Kleist’s perennial story in this issue, “The Earthquake in Chile,” is part of forthcoming, freshly translated collection of his prose.

  • Sad Stories Of The Death Of Kings

    It’s no wonder that David Lynch made two of his best films when he adapted Barry Gifford's Wild at Heart and then asked him to cowrite the script for Lost Highway.

  • His & Hers Watches

    He called into a local radio station upward of 60 times in January of 1989. Provided a series of correct answers that surpassed the other callers' series of answers and advanced southward to the state capital for the semi-finals. One night at a Holiday...