Talking with Andre Dubus III on Dirty Love and the Sacred Relationship Between Reader and Book
Interview by Jarret Middleton Read the full interview at Shelf Awareness Shelf Awareness Friday, October 8th, 2013 Andre Dubus III is touring the country for his newest book, Dirty Love (Norton), a collection of linked novellas whose characters fight with the darker side of love and the very possible realization of their deepest fears....
Vol. 1 Brooklyn: Talking H.P. Lovecraft and “The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised Men” with Gabriel Blackwell
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Talking H.P. Lovecraft and “The Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised Men” with Gabriel Blackwell By Jarret Middleton Read the full interview at Vol. 1 Brooklyn Gabriel Blackwell has been productive as hell lately, lurking under the radar of most readers as a fully able, hyper-intelligent chronicler of darkly imagined fictions. His newest release,...
Deleuze on Difference at The Weeklings
The Highest Luxury: Deleuze on Difference and Attaining the Status of a Sign Jarret Middleton Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Read the full article at The Weeklings Difference does not lie between things and simulacra, models and copies. Things are simulacra themselves, simulacra are the superior forms, and the difficulty facing everything is to become...
“Lady of Arson” In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch
In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction Inspired by David Lynch Out now on Eraserhead Press Available now on Amazon My story, Lady of Arson, appears in this wonderful tribute to one of my favorite directors. For over thirty-five years, David Lynch has remained one of the weirdest, most challenging, and provocative filmmakers. From his early...
Live at Breadline
Portion of my reading of the story “Lady of Arson” at the Breadline series at Vermillion Art Space and Bar in Seattle. 07/17/2013. Video courtesy of Greg Bem.
Seattle Wrote Interview
I sat down with Norelle Done over at Seattle Wrote blog to talk about recent happenings. Read the full interview here Seattle Author: Running a Business of Writing I am pleased to present a Q&A I had with Jarret Middleton, a local Seattle author and editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Coast Press. Thanks for...
The Lighthouse Road review up now at The Collagist
Book Review The Lighthouse Road by Peter Geye Unbridled Books, October 2012 Reviewed by Jarret Middleton The Collagist, Issue 44, March 2013 Thea, a young Norwegian immigrant, braves the arduous Atlantic passage on the tri-masted steamship Thingvalla to begin a new life in the rough and miserly camp of Gunflint, Minnesota. Her emigration...
Dark Coast & Friends at Seattle Lit Crawl!
CITY ARTS FESTIVAL – LIT CRAWL SCHEDULE Seattle Lit Crawl Public Event · By Lit Crawl Seattle Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:00pm until 10:00pm in PDT Seattle, WA It’s a bar crawl with literature—where hundreds of literati get drunk on words! On the first official night of City Arts Fest, Thursday, October 18th, Lit Crawl...
UNDERSTORIES by Tim Horvath (BLP, 2012) Review at HTMLGIANT
Book Review Understories by Tim Horvath Belleveue Literary Press, May 2012 192 pages / $14.95 Buy from Amazon Reviewed by Jarret Middleton HTMLGIANT Understories rises and falls in the geography of an infinitely complex urban landscape. The book maps a city made up of cities. Narratives made of indirect, minor narratives; stories within stories....
Smoking with Jarret Middleton | Interview in Issue 36 of SmokeLong Quarterly
Smoking With Jarret Middleton by Tim Horvath Art by Claire Callister In parts this story recalled for me nothing so much as William Styron’s Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression, in which he describes the “storm of murk” of his experience. Styron’s language is much plainer, though, than your tracing of the “blackened bottom.”...
MY ONLY WIFE by Jac Jemc (Dzanc, 2012) Review at Smalldoggies Magazine
Book Review My Only Wife Jac Jemc Dzanc Books, 2012 194 Pages | Buy Now Reviewed by Jarret Middleton Smalldoggies Magazine “Through the portal of these honed, singular images we see the wife at once sweet and then quickly vicious. As the book moves on, it is this cruelty that emerges like a path...
