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Ellen Ullman Explores Her Inner Darkness With ‘By Blood’
Ellen Ullman's first two books — the memoir Close to the Machine and the Kafkaesque coding thriller The Bug — both took place in...
Kris Saknussemm: Bent and Reverent
If the art of writing were a pop song, "write what you know" would be the "na na nas." If Kris Saknussemm's new novel,...
The Wall Streeters Come Tumbling Down
Portions of the publicity blurbage for Cristina Alger's novel The Darlings read like they could belong to the kind of glitzy pulp that writers...
The Book That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The title of the new collection edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is so potentially incendiary that her publisher's emails about it have gotten hung...
Listening in the Dark
The protagonist of the first half of Adam Johnson's novel The Orphan Master's Son specializes in fighting (and therefore seeing) in the dark, an...
Fred Setterberg Goes Home
As most East Bay denizens will easily reckon, the early days of local suburbia were no pastel-hued utopia. "For years, I've wanted to write...
Stranger Than Fiction
Asked what piece in Distrust That Particular Flavor — his new collection of essays, articles, talks, and other nonfiction works — was the most...
LA Punk Confidential
In the mid-1970s, punk rock bloomed electric on both sides of the Atlantic — first in New York, then in London. The second wave...
