“A Queer Frame of Mind” (an introduction to Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism) by Peter Dubé …
Big Other Contest #2
Madras Press is a new, non-profit publisher of individually bound short stories and novellas. The Press is a literary and…
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A century after Rilke wrote his famous letters to Franz Kappus, the literary-epistle game has changed. We want more than…
R.I.P. Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) “I have deliberately attempted to distance my art from the Western…
Lose my respect, Baby.
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Rules to Write By
The 39 Steps: a primer on story writing.