Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published last year and is included in…
He Can’t Remember, He’s No Longer Sure, Maybe
By Lance Olsen I don’t remember much about the particular circumstances surrounding my stumbling upon Robert Coover’s Pricksongs &…
169 Tweets on the Nature of Possibility, by Lance Olsen
Follow most fiction-writing handbooks, and you’ll produce a well-crafted narrative that could have been produce just as easily in 1830.…
Lance Olsen’s “Literary Pillars”
1. Petronius, Satyricon (1st century A.D.) 2. Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, 1616). 3. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67) 4. Mary…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen
RHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…