"I'm also not big on motive. I write one sentence at a time, then the next, and allow my creative juices to flow, take the story where it goes. I never have an ending in mind. That happens as I write." Read More
Many of us grew up with stories which ended with the words, “and they lived happily ever after.” We never...
As lgbt superhero teams proliferate, it only makes sense to showcase lgbt villains too; this fun compilation of stories sets...
In Fire Year, the 2012 winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, Jason K. Friedman mines two very distinct veins of American fiction: that of the American Jewish experience, and that of the American South... Read More
With aesthetically crafted prose and quick-witted dialogue, Bruce Benderson’s first published work of fiction in the U.S. since Pacific Agony (Semiotext(e), 2009) is a darkly funny satires of political correctness. Read More
It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of ten stories by Nigerian author Chinelo Okparanta. Read More
Reading A Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses is like walking past a mirror in the dark. You are caught off guard until you realize you are looking at your own reflection[...] Read More
Mundo Cruel is a shrewd celebration of subversion, to be sure, but for all its bravado the broader point here is a quiet reaffirmation that we all possess the innate capacity to subvert the status quo. Read More
This week marks the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedman’s The Feminine Mystique, a groundbreaking novel first published in 1963 that...
Guy Mark Foster in his collection of short stories, The Rest of Us (Tincture), chronicles what it is to be African-American and gay, amid homophobia, religious dogma, and racism. Read More