Ten US titles you need to read for the 411 on sex in America
Jul 30, 2014
From Kenneth Goldsmith to Gabby Bess, here’s the top ten things we learnt from this week’s State of Literature takeovers
Jul 25, 2014
The alt lit poet and New Wave Vomit editor shares her new zine, feat. Dracula, bald Britney and plenty of skateboarding mermaids
The writer and artist shares an exclusive short story about feeling alone but together in London
Read an excerpt from the writer's new book that captures the awkwardness of adolescence and adulthood alike
The writer and Illuminati Girl Gang founder tells us how she came to write – and why refusing to be the muse for another person's story is the most essential thing a girl can do
Read the enigmatic "story" from the daring writer turning novel form on its head – and who is ready to make yours ache
Jul 24, 2014
Joyelle McSweeney shares an exclusive preview of her operatic reimagining of the Pistorius trial with Oedipal proportions
A world in collapse where the Internet and skyscrapers are a thing of the distant past? Get an exclusive preview of the futuristic sci-fi novel now
Read the writer's moving story about the end of the art world and, by the sounds of it, the human race
The legendary chronicler of the American rebel talks to Stuart Hammond about his explicit new film – and tells us why the novel's not dead yet
From poetry to erotica, we chart the top ten mags set to keep you in the know
The enigmatic prose practitioner inscribes her process in this meditation on being unable to write
Jul 23, 2014
Read an extract from The Pink Trance Notebooks, the New York poet and cultural critic's experiment in diary form
How do you fall deeply in love with a colour? David Shields selects an excerpt from the lyrical essayist who will tell you how