Hello!

Welcome to Vintage Contemporary, a newsletter and book club about about the stylish, Lorraine Louie designed Vintage Contemporaries of the 80s and 90s, and how the stories in the imprint relate to the real anxieties and desires of our current world. 🌐

Each edition will explore a different release as I seek to understand the present through the fictionalized past. While I’ll be doing most of the writing, this is also a book club. I hope to conduct interviews with friends and chat with you as you read along! 🔎

Launched in 1984 by Gary Fisketjon, Vintage Contemporaries output ranges from dated paperbacks to “consequential contemporary American literature.” It features some of my favorite books by dirty realists Raymond Carver and Denis Johnson and oddballs like Joy Williams and Nicholson Baker.

About me

I previously co-hosted Texas Overture, a podcast about mystical, psychological, and art historical phenomena throughout Texas history. I’m a copywriter that writes short stories and the occasional article. I live in Texas.

I am not affiliated with Vintage books.