A few months ago, partly inspired by Roxane Gay’s excellent post in HTMLGIANT, I wrote about class and race and…
A Journey in Snapshots: Joseph Riippi’s The Orange Suitcase
The Orange Suitcase is a perfect title for this perfectly constructed book. The reader is packed up by author Joseph…
Why You and You and You and Everyone You Know Should Read Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird
I have been an admirer of Amelia Gray since I first read AM/PM. After reading her first book, I thought,…
Contest! Give us your shittiest love stories! Win an advance copy of J.A. Tyler’s new book.
There are two things you may or may not already know: 1)Our very own J.A. Tyler has an exciting new…
Abandonded Spaces Wait for Our Stories
How many stories pop into your head when you look at this picture? I saw this photo in a collection…
The Influence of Anxiety: The Modern Writer’s Neverending Race
I’ve been feeling pretty productive lately. This morning I had an idea for a story, and managed to do some…
New Year, New Books. Celebrate!
The Millions has up a long list of stuff to anticipate this year. I fairly drooled reading through it; in…
All The Best For You, To You: My 2010 Best in Lit List
Best Small Press Books: Matt Bell’s How They Were Found, Lindsay Hunter’s Daddy’s, Patrick Somerville’s The Universe in Miniature in…
Great Resource for Chinese Lit Translation
Not many people outside China speak fluent Chinese. Fewer still can read or write Chinese, a written language made of…
Stay Classy, Literature
There are more vampires, zombies and werewolves than working-class protagonists in American literature today. Does anyone else worry about this?…