Dashiel Carrera is the author of the novel The Deer (Dalkey Archive Press, 2022). His writing appears or is forthcoming in Los Angeles Review of Books, Lit Hub, FENCE, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, and other publications. Also a musician, he has released five albums on the label 75orLess Records. He is currently a PhD student in human-computer interaction at the University of Toronto.
Dashiel Carrera
Articles
White Noise, White Heat, White Books
Dashiel Carrera considers Han Kang, sleep, and the Velvet Underground.
Onto the Grayness
Dashiel Carrera speaks with Christian Bök about his ongoing poetry project, “The Xenotext.”
The Matador Waits
Dashiel Carrera reviews Nathan Dragon’s “The Champ Is Here.”
The Empty Spotlight: On Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera”
Dashiel Carrera reviews Nicolette Polek’s “Bitter Water Opera.”
Anchor Points and Improvisations: A Conversation Between Jeff Jackson and Dashiel Carrera
Dashiel Carrera and Jeff Jackson discuss how music has inspired the form and content of their novels.
The Water Vanishes: Alexandra Kleeman on Something New Under the Sun
Dashiel Carrera talks with Alexandra Kleeman about the subtleties and peril of the Los Angeles landscape and her recent "Something New Under the Sun."
Art and Futility: A Review of Juan Cárdenas’s Ornamental, Translated by Lizzie Davis
Dashiel Carrera looks at the recent translation of Juan Cárdenas's psychological, dystopian novel "Ornamental," from Coffeehouse Press.
Against the Grain: John O’Brien on the Possible Dalkey Archive/Open Letter Merger
Dashiel Carrera talks with John O’Brien about small fiction presses and the fate of publishers.
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