capsule reviews

vicki hendricks, gun crazy, + a coupon

Before we get into these… some cool news in the world of BDM Industries: a novella by friend of the newsletter

Naomi Kanakia

got reviewed at the New Yorker!¹ Behold:

Kanakia’s novella, titled “Money Matters,” arrived in my inbox, and before I knew it I had read halfway through. The experience felt a little like getting unexpectedly absorbed in a trashy episode of reality TV, but also like suddenly realizing that a conversation that started in the shallows of small talk has at some point drifted into the deep waters of meaning. I reached the end in a happily disoriented daze. No other piece of new fiction I read last year gave me a bigger jolt of readerly delight.

This is truly so cool! I really like Naomi’s newsletter, and recommend it, but I want to say too she’s also been very generous to me: I owe her a big debt of gratitude because she was really helpful to me when I was drafting the proposal of Weird Sisters. So—I asked her if she would make a coupon code for me to give to Notebook subscribers. …