Follow most fiction-writing handbooks, and you’ll produce a well-crafted narrative that could have been produce just as easily in 1830.…
Up Against the World: Resisting Sarki in His Mewl House, by Ken Sparling
Sometimes a person writes something so completely different from anything you’re used to reading that you aren’t in a…
Cliché Alert, by Cris Mazza
Cliché alert—not sure this can be expressed without them. A nightmare of colossal magnitude. OK, just the facts, ma’am. Those…
Always Arriving a Little Too Early: A Nocturne
It would only begin to make sense, years later, after my formal medical education was complete, when my nocturnal…
Otherwise (Eulogy for Diane), by Debra Di Blasi
Wallace’s Line is “a hypothetical line dividing animals derived from Asian species on the west from those derived from…
Autofiction, by Curtis White
Murdered by Subtlety By the time I was twelve years old, I had begun the long process of removing…
Happy birthday, Rosa Parks!
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be…
“A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn’t got a chance.”
Happy birthday, Muriel Spark! Here are some quotes from her writing: “It is impossible to repent of love. The sin…
“I express hopelessness.”
Happy birthday, Takashi Murakami! 57, today! “I really love American culture. That’s why I come here—I’m always looking for ways…
“It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.”
Happy birthday, Kenzaburō Ōe! Here are some quotes from this marvelous writer: “I am the kind of writer who rewrites…