Queer, Magicked Reality: A Conversation with JD Scott
JD Scott discusses their new story collection, MOONFLOWER, NIGHTSHADE, ALL THE HOURS OF THE DAY.
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Join NOW!JD Scott discusses their new story collection, MOONFLOWER, NIGHTSHADE, ALL THE HOURS OF THE DAY.
...moreRion Amilcar Scott discusses his new story collection, THE WORLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU.
...moreKaren Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreIlya Kaminsky discusses his new collection, DEAF REPUBLIC.
...more“It was a relief to be out of the confines of scriptwriting. I was having fun again.”
...moreKendra Fortmeyer discusses her first novel, HOLE IN THE MIDDLE.
...moreAnjali Sachdeva discusses her debut story collection, ALL THE NAMES THEY USED FOR GOD.
...moreClare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.
...moreFrom the tender age of eight, Jennifer Colville has known herself to be a visual artist.
...moreFor 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 to your ears by NPR’s truly excellent storytelling podcast Snap Judgment and read by Thao Nguyen of the San Francisco-based folk-rock group Thao and The Get […]
...moreFabulism is a lot like this purse. It seems to belong to this world, but doesn’t follow all of the rules. It beckons you. It’s off. The more you explore it, the more mystery and power it has. Over at Electric Literature, Melissa Goodrich makes the case for fabulism vs. realism.
...moreThis week, Bryan Hurt gives us a fabulist story in which CEOs practice blood sacrifice to ensure quarterly profits. (Believable.) The story, “Contract,” went up on Lit Hub on Wednesday and is part of Hurt’s debut collection Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France, winner the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. “Contract,” like the rest […]
...moreLen had led a grand life—dual citizenship in Israel and the United States, a stint in the IDF followed by apparent conscientious objection, elite schooling in Rome and Moscow, and the cultivation of a seemingly thorough knowledge in almost any subject you could care to raise. Len was actually none of those things. Rather, she was […]
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