This month’s blog theme is ‘America’ – an excuse for us to celebrate the dizzying array of US writers published by 4th Estate (Franzen, Didion, Chabon, Oates and Eugenides among them).
Josh Emmons’s cult novels The Loss of Leon Meed and Prescription for a Superior Existence are published for the first time in the UK today, so to kick off our theme he’s written an introduction to the books, explaining how although they may seem quintessentially Californian, they wouldn’t exist without his Anglophile streak…
