Two Melville House books shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
Melville House is celebrating the news that two of our books have been shortlisted for the inaugural Goldsmiths Prize, both Melville House UK author Lars Iyer’s Exodus and David Peace’s Red or… Read more »
Enrique Vila-Matas on Lars Iyer’s Spurious
Last year Spanish novelist Enrique Vila-Matas penned a column for the Spanish newspaper El Pais that praised Lars Iyer’s literary manifesto “Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss.” Now… Read more »
Litblogs: a health check
I’m sitting in a room with nine other people, each one of us an employee of (or employer at) a thriving publisher that grew out of — and still publishes… 1 / Read more »
Lars Iyer’s Spurious short-listed for the Believer Book Award
“Each year, the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels and story collections they thought were the strongest and most underappreciated of the year,” and this… Read more »
On the BFG, Basil Fawlty and Lars Iyer: fictional characters inspired by real people
Words was oh such a twitch-tickling problem to the BFG. He knew exactly what words he was wanting to say, but somehow or other they was always getting squiff-squiddled around.… Read more »
A “bum-squeakingly close” literary contest
Yesterday, The Not-the-Booker Prize, the rowdy, populist rival to the Man Booker Prize, came down to what prize moderator Sam Jordison described as a “bum-squeakingly close” (translation for American readers:… Read more »
At the heart of British author Lars Iyer’s debut novel Spurious is a relationship that most Americans would call downright abusive. Much of the book consists of one intellectual, named… Read more »