“Told in the third-person perspective of a young boy named Joshua, ‘Navigators’ follows this boy and his father as they engross themselves within the world of the fictional NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) video game Legend of Silence.”
“But quickly enough this tale reminded me of what I love about Baxter”: Jim Nichols on Charles Baxter’s story “Scissors.”
“It is a story, like love, as fanciful and appealing as a unicorn crossed with a whale, and as real and baffling as a narwhal.”
“While the focus remains on R’s mother and her quest, we see how a plight that seems unique when the story opens—how many mothers set out to rescue their sons from foreign militants?—lies on a continuum of vulnerability for women living in nations at war.”
Join us for our seventh-annual celebration of the Short Story, as we dedicate the month of May to short fiction.
“In The Universe of Click it’s more important to have someone saying ‘I loved it!’ than ‘The notion intrigued me, but I was unmoved by the pleonastic ramblings on page 94.’ A review is somehow less decisive than the perception that someone has liked something and passed it on to friends and acquaintances on Limped-In, Face-Schmuck, Mumbler, and Fritter…”
Chris Cander talks shop about her creative process and the story origins of her latest novel.
“[Henderson] invites us to this place like she might a sleepover between friends, sharing the stories of adolescent wonders and tragedies the way young girls share gossip.”
In honor of Professor Nicholas Delbanco, and on the occasion of his retirement, Fritz Swanson and Wolverine Press have printed a chapbook edition of his very first short story, “Composition,” originally published in 1979. There are 250 copies in the edition, and 10 of them have been set aside for FWR’s fundraiser.
Fiction Writers Review hosts its annual fundraiser from now until December 21st
