International Women’s Day has been and gone, but our WOM4N theme will be running until the end of the month. And what could be more befitting than exploring female sexuality through the sharp, and often hilarious, words of Nell Zink. Warning: these passages contain sexually explicit language, read on at your own peril/delight…
We’re nearing the end of our Picture Perfect month, and how better to wrap things up than to share our favourite covers with you. From power stations to fabric vaginas, here are the books the 4th Estate team are happy to judge by their covers.
Introducing RE4DINGS: a new regular video series from 4th Estate, in which our authors read 1 to 4 pages of their choice from their latest book. You heard it here first.
We are delighted to report that two of 4th Estate’s most exciting and thought-provoking works of fiction have been longlisted for the the National Book Awards! Read more…
When we were discussing this month’s music theme on the blog, we remembered that the inimitable Nell Zink was the editor of an indie rock fanzine before she wrote scintillating novels like The Wallcreeper and Mislaid. When we asked her whether she had any pages to show us, she wrote back apologising for not owning a scanner. However, she did have a (tenuously) music-themed story to hand; the story of an anaconda who unwittingly gets stuck in the New York art scene, and ends up devouring a doyenne of the 90s underground experimental rock community.
We couldn’t wait to share it with you…
As part of our music-themed month on the blog, we’ve been asking our authors to talk us through four songs that have inspired, accompanied, or in some way shaped their writing. For this first post in the series, Nell Zink talks us through 4 tracks that make up the soundtrack to her critically acclaimed debut novel, The Wallcreeper, which we published in a box set alongside her sophomore novel, Mislaid, this June.
In this podcast, Candice Carty-Williams interviews the spectacular and ever-engaging Nell Zink, an author who, having written for years, has risen to critical acclaim almost overnight, and essentially wrote her novel The Wallcreeper to troll Jonathan Franzen. Read more…
‘Write Here’ takes us into our authors’ writing spaces across the globe, where they tell us about how they go about their craft. We mark each location on the map at the bottom of each post. In this edition, Nell Zink from Bad Belzig gives us a glimpse into the life of a writing junkie…
