[A guest post from Matt Dube, fiction editor for the online journal H_NGM_N. He teaches creative writing and American lit…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 1
Those notecards? My book, in sum. On each ruled side [not pictured], the first and last sentence of a…
Challenging your patience for thematic effect
“You can never not write about you.” By way of addendum to my post of April 6, “Your Basic…
Your Basic Bore, or “The Literature of Exhaustion”
Look: I read the Bible when I was ten, the whole thing. I don’t remember much. The reading was…
Review: Issue 0!
Issue 0 of Review, “THE CREATION MYTH OF THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE,” is here! Rejoice. FICTION Visiting Writers – Ravi Mangla…
Some few thoughts on facticity
You know the difference between plain old “sci-fi” and “hard science fiction”? One’s boring. Nah. I’m just joking. The…
Exits Are: An Interview with Mike Meginnis
“A conversation is a journey, and what gives it value is fear.” So says Anne Carson. Exits Are is a…
How I Wrote Certain of My Books
[In which I elaborate on an earlier post, “Slow Writing?“] In thinking about my earlier contention that writing ought to…
Translating the Uncanny Valley
Terrific interview between Mark Polizzotti and Mark Ford about (re)translating Raymond Roussel’s Impressions of Africa and New Impressions…
Epiphanic Zinger
[Being a review of Krystal Languell’s Call the Catastrophists*] Personal anecdote followed by utterly shallow pop-culture reference. Sweeping claim…