Raised by Wolves
A story is different from an event . . . The event is what happens. A story is the mythology that rises from what happens. Often this mythology is where…
Posts by tag
The Millions
291 posts
An Iconophobic Literature
While writing and text are often utilized in visual arts, peeking out in pictures or art installations, within the literary world photos and images are not always as welcome. Over…
I’d Rather Be Reading Airships
At The Millions, Darcey Steinke gives an elegy for her Southern hero, Barry Hannah. She recalls their first interaction—when he called her to say a New Yorker review of her…
This Week in Short Fiction
On Tuesday, Aqueous Books released From Here, Jen Michalski’s second short story collection and fourth book. The founding editor of the literary quarterly jmww and a long-time Baltimore resident, Michalski’s…
Women and Non-Fiction
As the author of a forthcoming nonfiction book, a biography, I have become aware of how male-dominated the field of biography is. But why all of nonfiction? That is the…
Writing Portraits
Using Italian author Alessandro Baricco’s recently translated novellas, Mr. Gwyn and Three Times at Dawn, as a starting point, Matt Seidel goes deep over at The Millions into the subject of…
The Art of The Novel
The approach coupled with the scope (covering, as it does, a huge swath of time) results in maybe the most complete history of the novel in English ever produced. Over…
Word of the Day: Flosculation
(n); an embellishment or ornament in speech; to speak in flowery language; c. 1651 Trouble. Trouble is a great dustpan of a word. Its roots are found in Latin in…
What Dreams May Come
In a culture where everything is assigned a market value, imagination isn’t in high demand. Over at The Millions, Chloe Benjamin wonders why some of imagination’s most vivid manifestations—dreams and…
The Magic Building Where English Majors Work
A professor of undergraduate and graduate creative writing for twenty years, Cathy Day gives some practical advice for students at The Millions, admitting while English majors don’t work in a…
The Art of Homage
But what if your entire book is based on another one? What if a certain piece of information (in the cases of these books, a writer or a specific novel)…
The Persistence and Procrastination of Artists
How much time should be spent on a single work of art? Or inversely, how will the amount of time spent on a work ultimately shape what that work will…