Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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Posts Tagged: Literary Citizenship
So Funny It Kills: Getting Serious with Leland Cheuk
Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN.
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Paying It Forward: A Conversation with Lawrence Schimel
Writer, translator, editor, and publisher Lawrence Schimel talks about his work in the literary world.
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What Turns Up: A Conversation with Peg Alford Pursell
Peg Alford Pursell discusses her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
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Totally and Brutally Honest: Talking with Amanda Petrusich
Music critic Amanda Petrusich discusses DO NOT SELL AT ANY PRICE.
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Both/And: Republic Café by David Biespiel
How is one to make sense of making catastrophe and making love in the same moment?
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Independent Bookstore Day: Q&A with Celeste Ng
To help kick off the celebrations, we have an exclusive Q&A with Celeste Ng, 2018 National Bookstore Day Ambassador!
...moreSaeed Jones Lights up Different Forms of Humanity
For Brooklyn Magazine, Molly McArdle profiles poet, essayist, and BuzzFeed Literary Editor Saeed Jones. McArdle solicits Jones’s thoughts on diversity in media and describes him as a “literary citizen” for his work with BuzzFeed’s Reader vertical and the Emerging Writers’ Fellowship program. Last but not least, Jones mentions one of his first published pieces was at The […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #18: A Valentine: Fab Books by Fab Lit Citizens
I’m just back from Iowa, writing about the Democratic Caucus for Salon. You know what will make you think about citizenry? Watching hundreds of working-class union members standing in the harsh wind and freezing rain waiting to get in to a Hillary Clinton rally in an overheated high school gym in Cedar Rapids. Watching them […]
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Liz Prato
Liz Prato talks about her debut story collection, Baby’s on Fire, why she enjoys the process of revision, and what the phrase “literary citizenship” means to her.
...moreModel Citizens
Becky Tuch, founder of The Review Review, talks about the growing diversity in literary magazines, badass female protagonists, and the problems with telling writers how to be good literary citizens: The writing world is rich and varied and it needs every one of us. It needs extroverts (who love to go to readings, conferences, book […]
...moreCommunity Building Through Workshops
Julia Fierro successfully launched her debut novel, Cutting Teeth, earlier this summer. A decade ago, she wasn’t so lucky with her first manuscript. Fierro arrived in New York City after graduating from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop only to face rejection. In Poets and Writers, she describes her self-imposed exile from the literary scene and her […]
...moreHonest Reviews, Better Literature
Good literature demands strong criticism, but today’s culture of niceness has limited critics. Lee Klein, writing in 3:AM Magazine, points out that writers’ interest in receiving positive feedback often leads them to forgo standards and slant reviews positively: Literary citizenship is about buying books, subscribing to lit mags, going to readings. It isn’t about offering […]
...moreLiterary Citizens Also Need to Write
The writing community has lately been buzzing with literary citizenship—attending readings, writing reviews, supporting other writers with blurbs or buying their books (preferably from independent bookstores). But not everyone is happy with the literary estate’s citizenship requirements. Last month, Becky Tuch warned against devaluing writing as labor. Now Lisa Marie Basile, writing over at The […]
...moreAll the Good Literary Citizens
The idea of literary citizenship suggests writers should belong to a kibbutz of bibliophiles where everyone contributes to the greater good by writing reviews, attending readings, and supporting independent, neighborhood retailers. But all this goodhearted community camaraderie has devalued writing as labor, Becky Tuch claims over at Beyond the Margins. She writes that the concept […]
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