Do you actively try to align your metaphors and similes with the general themes of your text? Or do you…
The Dull King
“David Foster Wallace is very good at becoming the whole of boredom.” –Page 33, How Fiction Works, James Woods
kandinsky’s horse
Here are two paintings from different stages in the career of Vasily Kandinsky (1866-1944), the Russian-born painter considered a pioneer…
Riding Rantipole Into Blind Cupid.
I am writing some Mad Hatter-March Hare slash, which I fully intend to parade past every respectable magazine I can…
Big Other Contributors’ News, #11
John Dermot Woods will be reading fiction and showing comics at Freebird books in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, Sunday, January 24,…
Look at this fucking writer: Roxane Gay
When my youngest brother was born (he has since been known as The Baby, even until today), my other brother and…
Look at this fucking writer: Mel Bosworth
When I was a kid I liked to sit in a bucket while holding a bucket. And I was really…
Shuck by Daniel Allen Cox
The weekend before last, I impulsively purchased Daniel Allen Cox’s Shuck at Women and Children First, Chicago’s feminist bookstore and…
Look at this fucking writer: Jac Jemc
I’m the confused blonde kid and my current roommate is the adorable munchkin who actually knows the dance we’re supposed…
Things Writers Hate
The “blog to book” phenomenon that has been going on for the last couple years is obviously at this point…