Recently I’ve been culling the blogs I look at regularly, and adding some new ones. Refining my daily internet reading…
Not to put too fine a point on it, but…
I’d like you to pause for a moment and try to imagine beginning a review with this sentence: There are…
In This Alone Review Copy
If you’d like to review In This Alone Impulse, please send me your contact info, and your proposed review outlet,…
Black Family by the Sea: a Note on Interpretation and Race
Below is a photograph by William Eggleston that I saw on the cover of a book called ‘How to Read…
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts…
Not Asking Questions
I am in the throes of a new story. And it’s been the most patient I’ve been with a story…
Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION
I can’t thank Mathias Svalina enough for introducing me to Selah Saterstrom. Her first novel, The Pink Institution (Coffee House…
Anatomy of a Flash – Jimmy Chen (Guest post by Keith Nathan Brown)
Jimmy Chen is a writer. His flash fiction, “Footnote1,” engages the mental sphere, tolls the emotional chamber, and continues to…
I love Joanna Ruocco
I went to school with a writer named Joanna Ruocco whose facility with language made me nervous and envious and…
Big Other Reading Series, #5
Mel Bosworth reads an excerpt from Sasha Fletcher’s forthcoming novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL…