The Man Who Noticed Everything, Adrian Van Young’s first book of fiction, won Black Lawrence Press’s 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award, and is available for purchase from Black Lawrence Press. His fiction and nonfiction have been published or are forthcoming in Gigantic, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, The American Reader, Black Warrior Review, The Collagist, The Believer, Vice, Slate, and The New Yorker, among others. He is a regular contributor to the literature website electricliterature.com and the author of The Murder Chronicles: A New Orleans Murder Mystery, an interactive, serialized mystery novella for The-Line-Up.com. In 2008, he was the recipient of a Henfield Foundation Prize and was nominated by Columbia's faculty for inclusion in the Best New American Voices 2010 Anthology. His first novel, Shadows in Summerland, was published in April 2016 by ChiZine Publications.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

Pretending to Be Human: On Benjamin Percy’s “Suicide Woods”
Adrian Van Young reviews “Suicide Woods,” a new collection of stories by Benjamin Percy....

It’s All Part of the Plan: On Brian Evenson’s “Song for the Unraveling of the World”
Adrian Van Young reviews “Song for the Unraveling of the World” by Brian Evenson....

Hopes and Hopes and Hopes: On Mesha Maren’s “Sugar Run”
Adrian Van Young reviews “Sugar Run” by Mesha Maren....

Fascism in the Offing
Adrian Van Young reviews “Transcription” by Kate Atkinson....

The Degradations of Empire
Adrian Van Young reviews “A Necessary Evil” by Abir Mukherjee....
