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The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish

Dark, heart-wrenching and deeply anticipated. There was a lot of talk about the book before it even came out. Katya Apekina talks about The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish.

For those of us who are not familiar with you yet – tell us a little about yourself!

I’m a novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and translator. I was born in Moscow, and immigrated to the U.S. when I was 3 years old. I lived a pretty nomadic lifestyle in my 20’s—New York, New Orleans, St. Louis, and finally Los Angeles. There was something very exciting about the idea of abandoning everything and starting all over again in a new apartment, in a new city. In each new place I could imagine the different directions that my life could take. I feel less of that impulse now that I’m writing fiction because I have the freedom to imagine all those other lives without the hassle of having to live them. I’ve been in one place (Los Angeles) for a while now. I don’t know that any place will ever be Home with a capital H, but it’s home enough. I live here with my husband, radio journalist David Weinberg, and my 4-year-old daughter.

Congratulations on the release of The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish! It’s barely been a month — how has the past few weeks been for you?

The past few weeks have been crazy and exciting. I loved seeing friends at my readings who I haven’t seen in years, sometimes decades. It’s been fun to connect…

The new museum is saving up for a library of women’s history: ”There’s more to the history of women than role models and the battle of voting rights”

Starting next year, the new museum, History of Women Stockholm,

Having a body is strange! Talking about the absurdities of the human vessel, white noise machines and the okay-ness of Shakespeare with Rita Bullwinkel, author of Belly Up

What happens when you start feeding your hungry, local church?

Having a body is strange! Talking about the absurdities of the human vessel, white noise machines and the okay-ness of Shakespeare with Rita Bullwinkel, author of Belly Up

By Sandra Partanen Published on Oct 8, 2018

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What happens when you start feeding your hungry, local church? Can you restore someone’s sight with a doll’s eyes, and how do you acquire a black tongue? These are only some of the questions you would receive answers to upon reading Rita Bullwinkel’s Belly Up.

The wonders of the body, the strange things it can do and its decay is the focal point of Belly Up, and it will leave you nothing short of amazed. Each of the 17 stories are as bizarre, sometimes even grotesque, as they are careful and tender. After finishing the last page of the collection, you will most likely stand in front of the mirror and observe your own being in confused wonder.

Bullwinkel has been featured widely in magazines and journals like Tin House, Conjunctions, BOMB, Vice, NOON and Guernica. Belly Up is her debut collection, however, published by Texas based, all-women’s press A Strange Object on May 8th, 2018. Both her fiction and translations have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, and Belly Up has received remarkable praise from other talents like Jeff VanderMeer and Lorrie Moore.

Belly Up was released earlier this year (congratulations!), what has the experience been like for you?
It’s been wonderful and joyous. As someone who writes things, you can forget – or I forgot – that people are actually going to read the…

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Literary Criticism

The new museum is saving up for a library of women’s history: ”There’s more to the history of women than role models and the battle of voting rights”

Starting next year, the new museum, History of Women Stockholm, will start spreading knowledge through women’s history exhibitions, book clubs, movie screenings, salons, walks and research discussions. To do this, they are currently collecting enough literature for a library of the history of women. Our Swedish branch, I Bokhandeln, spoke to Lina Thomsgård who is head of the museum. Why do we need this library? We want to provide literature to artists, researchers, producers and

Partanen / Oct 8

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With children’s reading as the heart of the matter, Bokbok is the children’s own bookstore

When bookstores started closing their doors, Caroline Gezelius and Ulrika Sundström did the opposite. Their bookstore Bokbok in Södermalm is a space where the heart beats for children. This is where picture books beckon explorer’s minds, where fantasy novels stir up thoughts. Anything to give books a space in children’s and families’ daily lives. When reading becomes a challenge, they know how to help. Bokbok is a book box in all its glory. With its

Partanen / Oct 8

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The self-published crime novel became a bestseller — Emelie Schepp about making it as a self-published author

Emelie Schepp grew tired of waiting for answers from the big publishers and chose to publish her book on her own. She believed in her novel, and wanted to see it among readers. Four books later, and she is now one of Sweden’s most prominent crime authors. We catch her at the end of the fifth manuscript to talk about self publishing and an author journey that has been as bumpy as it has been

Partanen / Oct 8

Horror

Novellix releases titles from the masters of horror – from Stephen King to John Ajvide Lindqvist

Welcome to Stephen King’s uncanny world where anything could happen. Follow the brutal tale of a murder, and witness humanity’s relationship to its own guilt. Disappear into a dark fantasy story where two youths disappear without a trace, or visit the old friends whose secrets suddenly threaten to kill them both. Novellix’s Augusti launch, featuring short stories by Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Karin Tidbeck and John Ajvide Lindqvist, covers a timespan that reaches from

Partanen / Oct 8

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