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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

There are at least three Brian Evensons, all of them EXCEEDINGLY IMPROBABLE First, there’s Brian Evenson, the prolific author of crisp, often disturbing novels and short stories, whose first collection Altmann’s Tongue famously scandalised his employers at Brigham Young University and led to his resignation from the Mormon Church Then there’s B K Evenson, the sci-fi novelist behind books set in the Aliens and Dead Space universes and co-writer of the novelisation of Rob Zombie’s film The Lords of Salem Finally, there’s Brian Evenson, the translator of prestigious French fiction, including the charming and deeply strange novella In the Time of the Blue Ball, a book ascribed to Manuela Draeger, who does not exist It might seem like an uphill struggle for any book of ‘weird fiction’ to improve on the weird facts, but Evenson manages it with novels like Last Days, about a one-handed detective who becomes a prophet to an amputation cult, and stories like ‘Any Corpse,’ which opens with the line ‘When she awoke, a shower of raw flesh had fallen in the field’ This is not to suggest that Evenson’s work is at all unworldly: his 2008 novel The Open Curtain revisits the dark history of the LDS Church, while the horror permeating his short stories owes less to Lovecraftian beasties and more to the combination of an abiding uncertainty and the author’s lucid prose   Lately, all these Evensons seem to be operating in uneasy equilibrium The stories that comprise A Collapse of Horses – published by Coffee House Press along with reissues of three of his novels – venture into increasingly dark, even apocalyptic, terrain while maintaining a narrative control that owes at least as much to the experimental spirit of the Oulipo as to the usual suspects of American weird (Poe, Bowles, Burroughs) The narrator of his latest novella, The Warren, forthcoming from Torcom in September, may or may not be human, and leaves a place of relative safety to explore a mysterious, devastated landscape where identity itself is on the line As usual, Evenson persistently disarms his readers even as his fans recognise the crystallisation of his

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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November 2014

Like Rabbits

Bethan Roberts

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November 2014

When my husband unrolled the back door of the brewery’s lorry and hoisted first one cage, then another, onto...

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Issue No. 2

Letter to Jim Jarmusch [Broken Flowers]

Jon Thompson

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Issue No. 2

What they’ll know of us in future years: the large interiors of our suburban homes were designed by others...

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Issue No. 1

Interview with Will Self

Jacques Testard

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Issue No. 1

Standing on the doorstep of Will Self’s London home ahead of this interview, last August, I was quite terrified....

 

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