Archive - Zona Motel

INTERVIEW: The Monster at the End of This Birth Story: An Interview with Erica Stern

"I’ve always been plot-skeptical."

12 hrs ago •

REVIEW: Sophie Sleigh-Johnson’s CODE: DAMP

Jarett Kobek on British Folk Horror, British sitcoms, American Sitcoms, and Sleigh-Johnson's new book 'CODE: DAMP: An Esoteric Guide to British…

Jun 18 •

COLUMN: The Book-Object, "Books I Keep Though I Haven’t Read Them"

Elinor Abbott on books in her collection that have a hold on her despite never having cracked the cover

Jun 17 •

INTERVIEW: On Lance Armstrong with Daniel O’Malley by Dalton Monk

"Sadly, that's why he's so fascinating to me... So physically gifted––to a freakish degree––and so large-hearted with regard to cancer, but at the same…

Jun 16 •

DISPATCH: This’ll Have to Do (Scaffold at KGB)

That’s when the night pivoted. The screamers and smirkers had their moment, and then the quiet burned hotter.

Jun 15 •

DISPATCH: The Launch of "Waiting for Britney Spears: A True Story, Allegedly" (Book Soup, Los Angeles)

A woman is never just a woman, doubly so if that woman is a public figure.

Jun 14 •

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PROFILE: Apport Used Books, (Emmaus, PA)

Nora Kipnis Reports on a Node for Synchronicities at Ben Roylance's Bookstore

Jun 13 •

REVIEW: Tantrums in Air by Emily Skillings

Or, what the trope of the "dumb bitch" can teach us about poetics

Jun 11 •

INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Uzodinma Okehi, "SBDs, Authenticity Games, and the Freshness of Online Lit"

Uzodinma Okehi takes up for L. Ron Hubbard, Rupi Kaur, and hard boiled eggs.

Jun 10

REVIEW: Almost Mother: On Erica Stern's Frontier

Out now from Barrelhouse Books, Stern's debut is both a memoir and a ghost story.

Jun 9 •

DISPATCH: Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn

Franklin Park vs The Knicks

Jun 7 •

COLUMN: Art in its Own Terms #1, "How Some People Do Time"

Dmitry Samarov on "Into the Hourglass," an exhibition of work by incarcerated artists at Chicago's National Museum of Mexican Art

Jun 6 •

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