This Week in Short Fiction
Every good story is rooted in conflict, and most of us learned the different types of conflict in our high school literature classes like clockwork, year in and year out:…
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A Blundered Blurb
When Jim Ruland got a famous author to agree to blurb his book, he was on top of the world. Then the unthinkable happened: the author read the book and…
Why We Still Choose Paper
E-book sales have slowed in the past year and a half, so what is making readers continue to opt for paper books? This infographic posted by Electric Literature shows there…
You Write or You Don’t
As if we weren’t already torn over MFA programs, Joseph Scapellato recounts their pros, cons, joys, uncertainties, and (of course) costs: MFA is dreamy, and the more MFA talks the…
Leaving Out the Details
Tobias Carroll, writing over at Electric Literature, considers the level of detail authors use to create worlds in fiction. Some writers are known for sparse, minimalistic writing. Others leave out key…
Writing Like Someone You Haven’t Yet Read
Of course you don’t have to read an author’s work to have to deal with their influence. Major figures like Faulkner, Pynchon, Bolaño, and David Foster Wallace cast such a…
In Cahoots
Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Sherwood Anderson and William and Faulkner. Henry James and Edith Warton. And now, X… and you! The Association of Writers & Writing Programs just announced…
Semi-Factual Fiction
Electric Literature talks to David Shapiro about his new semi-factual novel You’re Not Much Use to Anyone and the reasons why he never wants to write another book like it:…
This Week in Short Fiction
Playing off of Jerry Seinfeld’s video series, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” The Morning News introduced a new column earlier this month called “Novelists in Restaurants Eating Food.” Roxane Gay offered up the first…
The Twin Peaks Project
As reported by Lincoln Michel at Electric Literature, Shya Scanlon has launched The Twin Peaks Project, which invites authors to write about the influence of David Lynch’s television show. The project’s…
A Gaggle of Geese, a Cackle of Mad Scientists
For the word lovers out there, Electric Literature found a poster listing the collective nouns for all types of supernatural beings and creatures. Come across a group of yetis? It’s…
How Many Words Are in Ulysses?
265,222. In Infinite Jest? 483,994. Curious how many words other famous works of literature contain? Take a look at this infographic over at Electric Literature, where you can learn about…