By: Gigi Little,
on 7/9/2015
Fiercely powerful, at times horrific, always gorgeous, Yuknavich's new novel does what she does best — makes you think. About writing, sexuality, brutality, the nature of our obsessions, the projections of our grief, and the strange, contradictory bits of architecture — both chasm and bridge — between reality and art. Books mentioned in this post [...]
By: Maryann Yin,
on 7/8/2015
Dark Horse Comics has announced that Chuck Palahniuk, the novelist behind Fight Club, will be featured as a recurring character in the Fight Club 2 comic series.
Palahniuk will make his first appearance in the third installment. The release date has been set for July 22.
The fourth issue will introduce characters based on the members of Palahniuk’s real life writing group: Chelsea Cain, Monica Drake, Lidia Yuknavitch, Suzy Vitello, and Diana Jordan. That book will be published on August 26.
Palahniuk gave this statement in the press release: “Literary critics claim that Ken Kesey’s mental hospital in Cuckoo’s Nest and Toni Morrison’s plantation in Beloved represent those authors’ post-graduate writing workshops. To prevent anyone from thinking my own workshop is either a support group for the terminally ill or a bare-knuckle mosh pit, I’ve included it in Fight Club 2.”
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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 7/7/2015
By: Lidia Yuknavitch,
on 7/7/2015
A fellow writer wants to know more about something I've written, something centering on a child's body at the center of the storm of war. She asks, "Why bring violence and sexuality so close to the body of a child?" Her eyes blur and magnify when she says it. I can hear the flutter of [...]
By: Dianah,
on 4/29/2015
Lidia Yuknavitch revisits the aching wound of her stillborn child in The Small Backs of Children. While fiction, this moving novel reads like nonfiction — it is so personal. Yuknavitch has the rare and almost magical ability to write beautifully about things that are horrific. Gathering together the stories of several characters, each playing a [...]
By: Kim,
on 12/28/2012
Yuknavitch is such a literary badass. In her debut novel (following last year's fantastic memoir, The Chronology of Water), she rips Freud's classic case study to shreds, then stitches it back together as a contemporary radical/feminist/hyperactive/queer coming-of-age story. Hysterical! Books mentioned in this post
By: Doug C.,
on 12/12/2012
This books jumps off the cliff with the first chapter but never quite crashes at the bottom. The crazy ride stayed with me weeks after reading it, and I still occasionally ask myself what the hell just happened! The author calls it a farce; it's that and a lot more. Thank you, Lidia Yuknavitch, for [...]
