A Reader’s Choice
What do you all think about Hemingway’s statement? This way of putting the choice on the reader? Are there any contemporary examples that ask something...
i shoot horses
I shoot horses. Or, I have.
I have shot horses. I have stood on a hill
and written you a long and involved letter
regarding my feelings....
The Little Chairs
The men in my family are gone. My uncle, a software programmer for IBM who made the same Thanksgiving dinner every year since 1987 from a menu in Esquire,...
How much does the audience get to know?
And yet on the other hand, being a memoir writer apparently, to a lot of people, means that your entire personal life is fair game. Because...
Contest Submissions Now Open! — UPDATE
Fiction judged by David Means
Poetry judged by Matthea Harvey
Nonfiction judged by Mary Roach
POETRY AND NONFICTION NOW EXTENDED TO DEC 31...
The Past in Nonfiction
Suzanne Berne writes about her search for a grandmother she never knew, a mother her father never knew: her grandmother died when her father was a little...
Dreamhorse
You wrinkle in this palace you will curdle
this pony as it molds to my face. My love
shrieks from postured sculpture. This space
is elegant with...
An interview with Mary Roach
Roach: "The whole wall behind his desk was filled with television screens of eyes that were currently being operated on! So, I’m trying to interview him, and behind...
The Three Towers
There was no room for artistic license. The towers were warehouses for books and people. If people wanted art or beauty, they could look for it in a book. Each...