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Writing the Great American Novel Video Game

by Michael Rudin

…to deliver a present-day shooter experience that not only trotted out the latest, greatest technologies for killing efficiently, but that also prompted the player to consider the emotional and psychological consequences. In the first Modern Warfare that was demonstrated most clearly in a now-famous sequence in which the player, acting as the gunner on an airship high above a battleground, obliterated the ghostly infrared images of people displaye…


Essays |

Writing the Great American Novel Video Game

by Michael Rudin

…to deliver a present-day shooter experience that not only trotted out the latest, greatest technologies for killing efficiently, but that also prompted the player to consider the emotional and psychological consequences. In the first Modern Warfare that was demonstrated most clearly in a now-famous sequence in which the player, acting as the gunner on an airship high above a battleground, obliterated the ghostly infrared images of people displaye…


Interviews |

“Plot is a Blueprint of Human Behavior”: An Interview with Natalie Bakopoulos

by Bistra Velichkova

…that the elections would not happen because there would be a coup. No one knew if the coup would come from the left, from the right, from the king, or from the army. What happened, surprisingly, was that the colonels—rather than the generals higher up—were the ones who pulled it off. In the middle of the night they arrested politicians, lawyers, journalists, artists, poets—mostly those with left-leaning views. Following the coup, numerous freedoms…


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The Age of Binary Bookmaking

by Michael Rudin

…s Kindle, are operating at a loss in hopes of future market dominance. The latest, Apple’s iPad, looks to revolutionize book selling with iBooks like it did music with iTunes, offering publishers a new magnitude of interactivity with which to connect audience to content. With the exception of the iPad, these e-readers and their pixilated pages are simply new ways of consuming an old form. Content convergence like this comes when technology fuels c…


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Into the Holographic Universe: An Interview with Alexander Weinstein

by Nina Buckless

…ut up a fight? I mean, how many of us have read the user agreements of our latest iOS update or Twitter agreement? I haven’t. For all we know, we’ve signed away our rights, our friends’ rights, and our family’s rights—but we shrug our shoulders. So there’s a way in which we’re becoming increasingly open to a violation of our privacy and personal consciousness. Once we start getting into wearable technology like contact lens screens, I think we’ll…


Shop Talk |

Book of the Week: Breaking and Entering, by Eileen Pollack

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

…to have nicer characters or less sex, to not be as broad. And when a woman tests boundaries, it’s seen as unbecoming. We’re supposed to write these quiet, domestic stories or novels. I’ve just never been one to do that. Eileen Pollack To read the rest of Short’s interview with Eileen Pollack, please click here. Eileen Pollack is the author of six previous books. Her stories have appeared in journals such as Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Michigan…


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Slouching Past Totality; Or, What a Post-Postmodern Holocaust Novel Might Be

by Jacob Paul

…a day. While this shocked none of my PhD committee—they knew me, and they knew exam study—when one member learned that my cram pile included Emmanuel Levinas’ 1961 Totality and Infinity, he insisted that I not read it all until after my exams, promising not to test me on it. At that point, I didn’t even know how the book had made it onto my exam list, much less what it was about. At any rate, it didn’t take much to convince me to postpone reading…


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Architectures like Underground Cities: Part IV of an Interview with Julianna Baggott

by Sebastian Matthews

…n you say a little more about this? How did you thrive? What was the daily practice’s new shape? I know I’m asking for lecture notes, but I can’t help it. I’m actually writing a mini craft book now—written in the voice of Harriet Wolf in letters allegedly written to a young Flannery O’Connor. We’re having fun with marketing materials for the new novel. And I just wrote all of this up there. But I’ll do a quick version. I was frustrated after my fi…


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Waiting for People to Catch Up: An Interview with Eileen Pollack

by Allie Tova Hirsch

…rilliant” by Meg Urry, president of the American Astronomical Society. Her latest novel, A Perfect Life (Ecco), was praised in the New York Times for its “immediate and moving” descriptions of the everyday work of scientists. Eileen was my workshop teacher and thesis advisor at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program of the University of Michigan. This semester, she’ll teach her final workshop. Those of us who have been lucky enough to work with Eileen Po…


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Is your prose fit or flabby? (And–does it matter?)

by Celeste Ng

…list And last, at great risk to my own ego, I pasted in the opening to the latest draft of my novel. The verdict, to my great delight: “lean,” the leanest of any of the samples I’d tested. So…? What does all of this tell us? Nothing—though I appreciated the affirmation. Says the WritersDiet FAQ: Q. Can effective writing really be reduced to a numerical formula? A. No, of course not. The WritersDiet Test does not attempt to measure for vividness of…




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