by Kaulie Lewis
The “plucky, nonconformist, self-determined and self-realized person” who embodies a particular American ideal could also be a description of Iceberg Slim, a career pimp who turned to writing during the political turmoil of the 1960s. Continue reading
by Thomas H. McNeely
The difficulties I faced in revising Ghost Horse were both artistic and spiritual. I was aiming straight for the heart of a dilemma through which I had lived, and I did not have the tools at hand to tackle it. Continue reading
by Carola Dibbell
She was always finding girls in trouble, damsels in distress. She was always volunteering to be their knight in armor. Yet when it came down to it she never knew what to say. “Want to talk?” she ventured. Continue reading
by Mason Stokes
The first time this happened, I was puzzled. Pursuing a PhD in English has nothing to do with novel writing—couldn’t be further from it, in fact. If I was engaged in anything, it was novel unwriting. Continue reading
by Terry Hong
The Cartographer is first a story about humanity and what happens to that humanity when confronted with the most inhuman circumstances.
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by Juhi Singhal Karan
Does the number of novels that one publishes have anything to do with being a writer, or the act of writing? We think not. This month we talk about five novels that were the only novels their writers published. Continue reading
by Lisa Peet
The book’s underlying tension comes not from individuals endlessly pushing back against the machine of state. Rather, each player in The Dog is straining, in ways large and small, to metabolize that machine. Continue reading
Bloom 