Life ‘After Birth': On Elisa Albert’s Groundbreaking New Novel
With her new novel, After Birth, Elisa Albert has already demonstrated a genius for concision. At under two-hundred pages, the book is fiercely brief, a breathless psychodramatic tour that begs to be re-read immediately. This is to say nothing of its perfectly clipped sentences — lines hijacked from a generation of men who seem not to know how to use them — that privilege clarity, precision, and rhythm above all else. And then the paragraphs: I’m convinced that Albert is among to the two or three best paragraph writers we have, mostly because, in their pithiness, they never sacrifice momentum. … Read More
This Small Publisher Just Hit the Mark Zuckerberg Book Club Jackpot
Last October, we declared London’s Fitzcarraldo Editions one of the “5 Small Publishers Who Are Changing the Face of the Industry.” We were right! and not only because the publisher has already turned out a stellar list of fiction and literary non-fiction. No, we were right, as it happens, because Mark Zuckerberg agrees with us. … Read More
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