Tag: Gabriel Blackwell
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“There Was Always Something More I Had to Know”: Marcus Pactor Interviews Gabriel Blackwell
Gabriel Blackwell never repeats himself. Each of his seven books offers a distinct approach to fiction, bending forms and genres to find new angles from which to capture the dark absurdities of modern American life. His new novel, Doom Town, is the confession of a man who has no faith in the power of confessions…
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“The Literature of Doom-scrolling”: Gabriel Blackwell’s Correction, a review by Gillian Perry
Reaching the end of this collection, or novel, or account, or whatever this book is to be categorized as, Blackwell acknowledges, “And then of course there is the internet.” Rescue Press’s 2019 Open Prose Selection, Correction does more than just acknowledge the internet—it displays the multifaceted way in which the internet has changed our thinking.…
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Gabriel Blackwell: Best of 2012
You’re reading a “Best of 2012” list to get some recommendations for 2013, to begin to parse the prodigious number of books published/albums released/movies premiered in 2012, to reassure yourself that you’re staying on top of things somehow, to nod along with everyone else at the expected results (that book/movie/song, again?), to shake your head…
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A Review of Gabriel Blackwell’s Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer by Joseph Riippi
Transcriber’s Note: What follows is, I think, a better review of Gabriel Blackwell’s Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer than I could ever have written on my own. I travel for business, you see. Just in the past week I’ve been to Atlanta, San Antonio, and Los Angeles, with quick trips back to…
Heavy Feather Review 