Tao Lin

Necessarily Unafraid Of Failure: Spencer Madsen & Alt Lit Poetics

Taking the writer and editor's latest offering, You Can Make Anything Sad, as a starting point Jake Elliott considers what Alt Lit has to offer as an art form and where, within that, Spencer Madsen and his work fit in

Growing Up In Public: Zoe Pilger’s ‘Eat My Heart Out’

Houman Barekat gets his teeth in to Zoe Pilger's debut novel - a blackly-comic commentary on feminism, idealism, contemporary youth and the complexities of human relationships - Eat My Heart Out

Peer Review: Rachel Cantor & Jeremy P. Bushnell On Their Debut Novels

In a head-to-head interview, Rachel Cantor and Jeremy P. Bushnell - candidates, even at this early stage, for producing two of the most exciting novels of 2014 - discuss their own, and each other's mind-bending new books

Broken Spines: Past & Future Tense (Literary Highlights Of 2013 & 2014)

Not one to be left out, the Quietus Literary Supplement offers up a (not-quite-so-comprehensive) list of its own - our favourite books of 2013, and possible gems of the year-to-come - compiled by friends, contributors and our very own editors

All Tomorrow’s Voices: Dan Holloway

For his second column for The Quietus, showcasing new voices in poetry, Bobby Parker speaks to Dan Holloway about his novel in numbers, the perils of reading your work and the limitations of self-publishing

Reality Check: An Encomium For The “Dying” Novel

Having heard, a thousand times or more, that the novel is a dead or dying art Thomas Brewster considers just how true that war cry is and where contemporary fiction might or must go from here

Uncorrected Proof: Taipei By Tao Lin Reviewed

Declan Tan finds himself caught in the whirlwind of this latest offering from, perhaps, one of the most unique literary voices of a generation

Everything Is An Amalgam: Sam Riviere Interviewed

Tao Lin’s Shoplifting From American Apparel Reviewed

Huw Nesbitt finds Tao Lin's new novel as slick and vapid as a pair of shiny leggings from the young girl-loving fashion retailer