For a story in a different medium this week, check out Amber Sparks’s “Thirteen Ways to Destroy a Painting” from this year’s The Unfinished World—adapted to a radio play. It’s brought…
At Electric Literature, Amber Sparks writes about the short story as the critically darling but commercially nonviable art form it is—and how we need to stop telling short story writers to…
Amber Sparks considers the popularity of Instagram, and why it is so loved: It offers us the opportunity to wander the halls of someone else’s mind, to enjoy their obsessions…
This week, we have two stories of time machines and space stations, but mostly of people who clean up messes. Amber Sparks’s second collection of short stories, The Unfinished World,…
The late David Bowie was a great inspiration for many different authors. Over at Electric Literature, some of them—including Aleksander Hemon, Porochista Khakpour, Ru Freeman, Amber Sparks, and Marie-Helene Bertino—reveal how the…
Not every book is a great work of literature, but that doesn’t mean literary authors don’t have fun reading some pulpy genre books. Over at Electric Literature, Amber Sparks confesses to…