Jessica Hollander is pursuing her MFA at the University of Alabama. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Quarterly…
Why isn’t a short work considered ambitious?
It seems it’s just as ambitious to tell a story succinctly, to have a short amount of pages make up…
Amy Hempel’s answer – What’s yours?
As a writing teacher, and in the interest of all the aspiring writers reading this, what’s the most common mistake…
Anatomy of a Flash: Janey Smith (Guest post by Keith Nathan Brown)
Provocateur and DIY punk mistress, Janey Smith, eschews the conventional channels of publishing for a more personal guerrilla method in…
Heart of Gass
On William H. Gass’s “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country” I have a strange little love affair…
Tell us…
…about the most important influence on your writing career. Person or book, feeling or storm.
Big Other Reading
The best part of the Big Other event for me was everything. But mainly it reminded me of what astute…
On Broadway: ‘Red’ – Guest Post by Nancy Kelly
Red, currently playing on Broadway in a limited engagement through June 27th, is a stirring play about art, commerce, civilization,…
Nuggets from Markson’s The Last Novel – more added 6/8
You have to read fifteen hundred books in order to write one. Flaubert put it. *** People who more immediately…
A Jolt of Sorrentino
Yesterday in the library I picked up Jeffrey Eugenides anthology of love stories (My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead: Great Love…