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May 11, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Stanley Elkin on Writing, Sentences, Fiction, and More.

Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews: “Make a thing that never…

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Thomas Pynchon on History, Truth, “Living Inside the System,” Death, and More.

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 83, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to…

May 7, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Angela Carter on Writing, Reading, Books, Desire, Love, and More.

Happy birthday, Angela Carter! Here are some quotes from her writing: “Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.”…

May 6, 2020 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

JFK Reconsidered, by Joe Pan

Happy birthday, Joe Pan! Celebrate by reading this fiction we published February 28, 2019! MCPPFER Doc *Message to…

May 5, 2020April 20, 2020 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Beautiful Boy Falling, by Lance Olsen

You were there, only nobody saw you. This is what you are good at: not being there when you…

May 5, 2020May 5, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Karl Marx on History, Labor, Class, Revolution, and More.

Happy birthday, Karl Marx! Here are some quotes from the author’s writing: “Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” …

May 4, 2020May 5, 2020 - Books, Reading, Review, Writing

On Douglas A. Martin’s Wolf, by Tom DeBeauchamp

In Douglas A. Martin’s Wolf, two pre-teen brothers beat their father to death in the glow of his TV…

May 3, 2020May 3, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Christine Schutt on Writing, Reading, Teaching, Sentences, and More.

Happy birthday, Christine Schutt, who always magnificently dissolves the so-called boundaries between poetry and prose! Christine’s evocative, lapidary writing…

May 3, 2020 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Four Fictions, by Osama Alomar

Happy birthday, Osama Alomar! Celebrate by reading these fictions we published February 22, 2019! Explosions…Explosions Fathi is on…

May 1, 2020May 3, 2020 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: From The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Happy birthday, Micheline Aharonian Marcom! Celebrate by reading this Marcom fiction we published February 27, 2020! It was featured in…