We’re Off for Summer Vacation
by The Editors
We’re off until Labor Day. Have a fiction-filled summer!
We’re off until Labor Day. Have a fiction-filled summer!
Join us for our eighth-annual celebration of the Short Story, as we dedicate the month of May to short fiction.
For those of you headed to L. A. for this year’s AWP, we hope you’ll be sure to drop by the book fair and say hello. We’re particularly excited because this year we’ll be sharing a booth with Midwestern Gothic.
“Nothing ‘important’ comes at the reader straight in ‘American Express,’ and whenever I try to pinpoint what it is that makes Salter such a distinct writer, this is where I poke around for answers.”
“I had been pushing my character, and maybe even my sister, into an ‘other’ box, inadvertently dehumanizing her experience, when what I needed to do instead was bring her into my own head more completely and fold our experiences together.”
We believe one simple thing: Fiction Matters! If you do, too, we hope you’ll consider supporting us.
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Ben Nadler goes to great lengths to inhabit the setting of Isaac Babel’s “My First Fee.”
Lenore Myka on Mavis Gallant’s story “Mlle. Dias de Corta,” which she calls “a high watermark for what it means to write a truly compelling, frequently unlikeable, and ultimately empathetic character.”
Kazuo Ishiguro visits the Hopwood Room and talks about what qualifies a person to teach writing.
“Along the way, listening to writers at my dinner table speak of their work, their contracts, their advances, their sales, their ratings on Amazon, their competitors, etc, I came to realize how much it takes to carve out a career as an author, to live by the pen. At my present age, none of these concerns are mine.” Elena Delbacno discusses the perks of publishing later in life.
