By Suman Mallick
From Mallick’s new novel, out October 13th.
All in Fiction
Colossus
By Maurice Irvin
I figured it would have been one of those things we said but didn’t do—drunk talk, where most of our ideas came from, not that they were good ones. But I wasn’t surprised when Formeller shook me awake in the early morning, telling me to get in the car, we were going.
Boom
By Michael Flanagan
It started late on a Saturday, a summer evening in August, the terrible strikes, if that’s what they were, beginning sometime after nine o’clock.
How Do We Get Out of This World?
By Alex Behr
Desire and its suppression in the stories of Kimberly King Parsons, whose debut collection, “Black Light,” is one of ten books on the Longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction.
Dan DeWeese Makes Absurd Argument Connecting Willie Nelson, Travis Scott, George Frideric Handel
On the radio program The Steer, Propeller Books editor Dan DeWeese chats with hosts Jeff Alessandrelli and Sunny Bleckinger about connections between music from Willie Nelson, Pink Floyd, Sade, George Michael, Travis Scott, and George Frideric Handel.
To Seth, On His Tenth Birthday
By Benjamin Craig
"I know your mom doesn’t take the family out of the magnetic field because of the radiation problems out here in space, but you should try to get her to reconsider."
Matthew Robinson Discusses The Horse Latitudes at Fiction Writers Review
In a Memorial Day post at Fiction Writers Review, Propeller Books author Matthew Robinson discusses (with Propeller contributing editor Thea Prieto) the challenge of writing about war.
How to Shoe a Horse
By Jeanette Rawlins
This process is easiest if you keep your hoof knife razor sharp. But use caution. It’s easy to accidentally slip and cut yourself while working.
Allegorical and Absolutely Human
By Thea Prieto
Megan Hunter’s debut novel, The End We Start From (Grove Atlantic, 2017), is a lyrical vision of new motherhood in the midst of environmental fallout.
Sophie Sees Through
By Sue Preneta
Sophie had seen through three men in the past year. First and most importantly she’d seen through Joe, her husband of twenty-six years. But she was tired of thinking about that.
From "Tony Wolk: Letters, 1981-2027"
By Tony Wolk
A missive on Wolk’s Sourdough.
Gielgud in Los Angeles
Dan DeWeese and Daniel Quantz at Book Soup November 30th.
Executive First Class
By Jess Nicol
“I must be clear that although I am writing you with the knowledge and care of a Canada Air Communications Specialist, the contents of this note are written strictly from an individual standpoint (from Stuart Tweed the man, rather than Stuart Tweed, long-term Canada Air employee).”
Milk and Motherhood
By Sheila Heti and Dorothea Lasky
The novelist Sheila Heti and the poet Dorothea Lasky spoke over email for several weeks about their new books, Motherhood (Henry Holt) and Milk (Wave Books). Heti is the author of seven previous books, including the 2012 novel How Should a Person Be? which was a New York Times Notable Book and was called by Time magazine “one of the most talked-about books of the year.” Lasky is the author of four previous full-length collections of poetry, including ROME (Liveright/W.W. Norton) and Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE, all from Wave Books.