Matthew Salesses (whose month-long stint as Writer-in-Residence at Necessary Fiction has already been mentioned here) contributes a few thoughts…
Something Else Unknown: Richard Froude
“I want to think of this work as contoured. I want it to rise and fall.”* Richard Froude, born in…
Review Issue 00!
Yet another issue of Review, Issue 00!, Spring, 2012: Paul Simon, it’s “Graceland.” Enjoy! Fiction Michael A. Martone | Wikipedia…
A Sequence on Sequence, Part 4: Nathan Huffstutter
[A guest post from Nathan Huffstutter. Nathan Huffstutter’s work can be found at The Nervous Breakdown, The Collagist, and…
A Sequence on Sequence, Part 3: Amber Sparks
[Wisdom from Amber Sparks.] Warning: my thoughts on ordering stories will almost certainly be incredibly unhelpful to you in…
A Sequence on Sequence, Pt. 2: Matt Dube
[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…
The Dividing Line, the Defining Meals: Kafka Sermon Final
For a few days here on Big Other, now while we’re still in soul-shot of Passover and Easter, I’ve been…