The Failure Six, by Shane Jones
Shane Jones recently gained acclaim in the indie lit scene after selling the film rights for his first book Light Boxes to Spike Jonze. The sale prompted Penguin to purchase print rights for the debut, and Penguin will be re-releasing Light Boxes this summer.
Jones writes spare-fabulist prose. His books are driven heavily by plot, and his sentence-level style echoes such writers as Franz Kafka and Richard Brautigan.
We caught up with Jones to discuss his sophomore effort, The Failure Six, recently released by Fugue State Press.
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the first chapter of The Failure Six, which ran yesterday on DSM. — Brian Carr
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Remember The Veterans
It’s Veterans’ Day. Lower your eyes for a moment and reflect. But don’t just reflect on America’s soldiers alone. Also call to mind the men and women who, while fighting in service of their native lands, gave themselves for their way of life, too. One of the many things literature teaches us is that no matter the size of the gulf between countries, we are all linked by stories. After all, everyone has one. It’s only that some more than others are equipped to lay their stories on the page. Nabokov certainly was. Even in death his prose rouses storms of controversy. The NY Times examines the author’s posthumous novel. What happens when something you passionately believe to be true actually turns out to be false? Science, that’s what. Find out more in Miller-McCune. One of our favorites — the man, myth and legend — Guy de Maupassant gets his treatment in the London Review of Books. Literature is beneficial not only for uniting distant countries, but also for addicts, prisoners and other ne’erdowells. The BBC explains. An author retraces the last steps of his murdered father and from his discoveries writes a book that reveals new truths. Finally, when a generation tapers off, where does its language go? The Atlantic takes us back to WWI, with its soldiers, relationships and modes of communication. In honor of Veterans’ Day, we recommend reading what those soldiers had to say. — Kevin Murphy
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