The journal n+1, which published my novella “Sweet Grafton” back in 2007, has posted a new excerpt from Necessary Errors on its website. The novel itself will be on sale August 6.
Category: Necessary Errors
Awful truths
Two interviews with me went online today. At the Daily Beast, I explain, among other things, why trading on a scholarly reputation in the real world is like trying to spend poker chips at the grocery store. And in a joint interview conducted by Jane Hu for Pacific Standard, Choire Sicha and I talk about defamiliarization, lost time, and how to use pagers to let your friends know which bar you’ll be at.
“Crain uses the semicolon”
Norman Rush has reviewed my novel in the 15 August 2013 issue of the New York Review of Books.
South by southeast
In its “Oversimplified Summer Reading Guide,” New York magazine has placed my novel south on the “Takes a Week” axis and slightly east on the “Beach Casual” axis. On sale August 6. You can now pre-order the book at the websites of the Manhattan bookstore McNally Jackson and the San Francisco bookstore Book Passage.
Harper’s Bazaar
In Harper’s Bazaar, Emily Cronin describes Necessary Errors as “a sparkling first novel by the literary critic Caleb Crain about youth, ambition, and self-invention in early-’90s Prague.”