Fiction

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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  The Cozy in the Closet: Josh Lanyon’s Holmes and Moriarity Series

  "Christopher Holmes himself, that detective who is not the detective you expect, is out of the closet — and yet still often in its shadow, both actually and metaphorically."

  Noah BerlatskyDec 30, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Noir

• Prying: Jhave on Tender Claws’ New App

  Jhave on "Pry," an interactive multimedia fiction — an iOS app by Tender Claws, the duo Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman.

  JhaveDec 29, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Science & Technology

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  The Laurel Canyon Story

  "Los Angeles is, in my humble opinion, the origin point of some of America’s greatest fiction, past and present."

  David BreithauptDec 20, 2014

  • Fiction

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  A Dirty Baker’s Dozen: My 13 Favorite Crime Novels of 2014

  Woody Haut's favorite crime novels of 2014.

  Woody HautDec 19, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Noir

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  Name Your Poison: A Brief, Highly Subjective History of Culinary Crime

  "Readers will never look at a duck press the same way again."

  Katherine Hall PageDec 19, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Food & Drink

  • Noir

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  Notes on a Native Daughter: Joan Didion at 80

  Because Tom Wolfe and because James Baldwin and Hunter S. Thompson and Michael Herr, but because Didion most of all, an American essay today without the sudden and revelatory personal aside is hardly an American essay at all.

  Emmett RensinDec 17, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Memoir & Essay

• Albania’s Prophet of the Surveillance State

  Like all serious novels, "Twilight of the Eastern Gods" is a novel of history.

  David Hancock TurnerDec 16, 2014

  • Fiction

• The New New Africa

  Olufemi Terry on Denis Johnson

  Olufemi TerryDec 13, 2014

  • Fiction

• Carnage Hill, or Frank Bascombe’s Late Years

  Maybe a good life is just living long enough to figure out some essential truth.

  Tod GoldbergDec 13, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

• God Would Bend

  On Blake Butler’s '300,000,000'

  Tiffany GibertDec 13, 2014

  • Fiction

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  William Gibson’s Breakfast Burrito

  “The Peripheral is thus less interested in specifying two fully articulated hypothetical futures than in inviting us to reflect on our present-day imaginative relationship to the future …”

  Lee KonstantinouDec 12, 2014

  • Fiction

  • SF

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  You Got Pages?

  Les Plesko and the Art of Writing

  David FrancisDec 11, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction