When people ask me why I write what I do, or read the things I do, I tend to use…
THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, A Duet: Part II; in which we discuss foundlings and feminists, the exhaustion of forms, Twin Peaks, and how literature can’t compensate for a lack of toilet paper.
A dual post by John Domini and Amber Sparks on John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor. Part Two: our Hero &…
Pledge and Help Patasola Press Continue to Do Great Things!
Patasola Press is a new indie press in Brooklyn, New York. They just published the wonderful “The Indefinite State of…
THE SOT-WEED FACTOR, A Duet: Part I
A dual post by contributors John Domini and Amber Sparks on The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth. JOHN: Wanting to…
It’s the Little Things: What Do you Do When you Write?
The places where I get most of my ideas, where I’m most creative, are not very conducive to writing. The…
What lost film would you love to see?
My husband and I are both silent film buffs. (That makes us sound really pretentious but honestly, we got into…
Pre-Order Roxane Gay’s Debut Collection, Ayiti, Today Today Today, Now Now Now
I suspect many of you are just as excited about this one as I am. Roxane Gay is one of…
Vote! Vote! Vote! or, Warning: Shameless (Sort-of) Self-Promotion Ahead
Did you vote yet for your favorite in the storySouth Million Writers Award? Did you know that some of your…
Reflections on Reflections on Michael Kimball’s Us
It’s clear that Michael Kimball’s novel, Us, recently published by Tyrant Books, has affected many writers and readers more deeply…
Thank You, Diana Wynne Jones
A wonderful writer died at the end of March, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about…