Lincoln Michel
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Neither Seen Nor Heard
When it comes to the slush pile, nobody wins: writers lose money submitting into a void while editors lose time skimming work that barely resembles their publication’s criteria. Lincoln Michael offers a few suggestions for improving the system.
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BuzzFeed’s Literary Future
BuzzFeed has announced an “Emerging Writers Fellowship,” to be headed-up by its new Literary Editor, Saeed Jones. Get the details in Jones’s interview with Electric Literature.
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I Can’t Quit You
Readers stop reading a book they enjoy when they put it down and forget to come back. Readers finish books they hate when they are assigned it for book clubs or else they want to hate-read and laugh about [it]…
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2014: The Year of the Debut
Though he admits that “it can be a little silly to sum up an entire year of books,” Electric Literature’s Lincoln Michel suggests that “2014 might be the year of the debut.”
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Can Literature Improve Your Life?
Electric Literature features a video from The School of Life that addresses some ways literature can improve your life.
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Literary Product Placement
George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire isn’t native advertising for Sparkling ICE and Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey… but a brand manager can dream. Over at Electric Literature, Lincoln Michel wonders what would have happened if famous literary works were meant…
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Books Are Here to Stay
Many people who buy exclusively e-books still like to browse in physical bookstores and look at physical books. The printed book is far from dead. At BuzzFeed Books, Lincoln Michel has an essay on the future of the ongoing battle between…
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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 first post, written by Scanlon, is live on The Believer Logger.
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A Library’s Trash
Mark Luce, who teaches literature and history at the Barstow School in Kansas City, has a new column at Electric Literature, reviewing books that he and the school’s librarian have recently removed from the collection. His first “Discarded Pile” post…
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Portrait of the Author as a Debut Novelist
Over at BuzzFeed Books, Lincoln Michel asks Alena Graedon, Scott Cheshire, Julia Fierro, and D. Foy, who all just released their first novel, to talk about their writing influences, literary commitments, and elevator pitching their first books.
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Fiction is Fiction
What does “realism” mean, anyway? Over at Ploughshares, Rumpus contributor and Gigantic magazine editor Lincoln Michel discusses the problems of the term “realism” when it comes to literature: I tend to think it is an ill-defined term, not a useful…
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What We Talk About When We Talk About the American South
The latest issue of Guernica is out, and it’s a doozy. The special issue—the first of 4 such issues funded by a Kickstarter campaign—takes on the American South. Features include novelist Kiese Laymon in conversation with his mother on language and love…