Jacob Silverman writes “Against Enthusiasm” at Slate: “The writer Emma Straub has 9,192 Twitter followers . . . let’s say…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass (continued)
25 remaining, & here they are, picking up where we left off, with Tolstoy & his disgraced Natasha 26) The…
Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.
25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger…
Tim Horvath’s “Literary Pillars”
The Top Five: As widely as my tastes ebb and flow, these five remain, stalwarts, five friends I want with…
A Sequence on Sequence, An Appendage: Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses (whose month-long stint as Writer-in-Residence at Necessary Fiction has already been mentioned here) contributes a few thoughts…
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…