Rhythm vs. Fact
There were factual inaccuracies in D’Agata’s essay, including the statement that Las Vegas had 34 strip clubs, when the source clearly said it had 31....
In A Strange Room
In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut is a novel in three parts. Or rather, a book in three parts. The novel part is debatable. Why? Because each of the three...
What is Left is What Matters
A review of Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward. What is at stake for this family comes starkly to the fore of this intimate and brutal narrative set in Bois...
what happens when you watch jaws backwards
Outside the window
the freeway threw up enough cars
that they had to open a parking lot. People died
by the truckload...
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...
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...
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...