Tag: metamodernism
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A new atrocity: C.D. Rose’s ‘We Live Here Now’
This blog post is more ‘thought experiment’ than ‘thought through’. Let’s see whether it works. C.D. Rose’s We Live Here Now (Melville House, 2024) won the 2025 Goldsmiths Prize for experimental fiction. It comprises fifteen chapters, the stories of which are not told strictly chronologically—’They could we think later, be seen in any sequence.’—that all…
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Not quite everything: ‘Fatherhood’ by Caleb Klaces
The question of form may never be resolved. Is the novel better than poetry? Are short stories just novel-lite? In Fatherhood (Prototype, 2019), Caleb Klaces avoids that scrutiny completely by mixing two of those forms together. Fatherhood combines ‘prose and poetry in an experimental work of verse fiction’. The text tells the story of Caleb…