April Ayers Lawson
'Virgin and Other Stories' Is a Brilliant Book About Sex and God in the South
We caught up with debut author April Ayers Lawson to talk about her beautifully disturbing new collection of stories.
Welcome to the Fiction Issue 2015
The latest issue of VICE includes a haunting piece about a serial killer by David Means, an interview with David Sedaris, limericks by Anthony Madrid, and new stories from Joy Williams, Ottessa Moshfegh, and April Ayers Lawson.
How to Leave the Bathroom: An Interview with Clancy Martin, Author of 'Love and Lies'
Successful communication requires a bit of dishonesty.
The Bickering IS What’s Happening: Two Interviews with Whit Stillman
Whit Stillman and I were talking about how brokenhearted women often go to Paris. "I don’t think it’s necessarily a destination a brokenhearted guy would choose," he said. "He might go to Alaska and die in the wilderness.”
'The Mystery Is in the Ordinary, Uncool Things' - An Interview with Author Juliet Escoria
Reading Juliet Escoria's Black Cloud feels as if you are reading a diary that someone wrote with the intention of it one day being found, for both her and your benefit. In other words, it is intimate.
The Joy of Being Elusive and Unstable: An Interview with Author Rivka Galchen
What one moment seems to me like nothing, the next moment, through Rivka Galchen’s eyes, becomes the world. I think one could ask nothing more from a her collection of stories.
Screenwriter Louis Mellis on Starting Out and What an Idea Is
The guy who wrote the film Sexy Beast has a story in our June fiction issue, so we had fiction writer April Ayers Lawson interview him. As suspected, he's brilliant and...
Good, Evil, and Canada's Aboriginal Kidnappings - An Interview with Adrianne Harun
After I purchased Adrianne's book, I went into the parking lot to find my car battery had run dead. I went back inside, sat down in the bookstore café, and looked at VICE.com, where I saw <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-aboriginal...
If You're Going to Read Plays, Read Annie Baker's
Annie Baker, who won the Pulitzer for her play The Flick, believes that “every single person on this planet is a genius and an idiot” and “any given person you walk by on the street could be brilliant and also deluded and insane.”