Scientists are uprising! Against Elsevier! Pocket protectors unite! Sugar of Dear Sugar renown has revealed her identity–it’s author of Torch and Wild (forthcoming), Cheryl Strayed. There’s been some conversation across different magazines and websites about fact checking, truth, and creative nonfiction.
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Starting here, The Believer hosts a three-part conversation between Vanessa Veselka and Lidia Yuknavitch.Part 2 is here and Part 3 is here. Also at The Millions, Nick Ripatrazone, writes about compensation and literary magazines. The Millions has assembled a nice compendium of literary Tumblrs. Both students and faculty are encouraged to participate. I don’t know of any writer who conveys the observations of a young woman with the skill of Erian.Ĭathy Day is doing a survey about the place of the novel in MFA programs. Many of the stories also approach love and sex through narrators who possess a sense of wry detachment and intimate self awareness. We have to simply accept the characters as they are. In most of these stories, there’s none of that. So often in our fiction we explain a character’s motivations or explore the underlying pathology. Oftentimes she writes these strange women who openly display their damage without apology but we never learn why the way they are. One of the books we’re reading is Alicia Erian’s The Brutal Language of Love, and as we discuss the book, I am reminded of the brilliance of this collection. I assigned this book for lots of reasons, but mostly because Erian’s writing here responds to many dominant cultural narratives about love, sex, and gender, in complex, original ways. We just finished workshopping their first stories and every student surprised me with how they interpreted this idea of a love story. More importantly, their writing, both critical and creative, has been fantastic. So far, it has been an exceptional class and our classes have been so invigorating because the students are really getting into what we’re reading and having killer discussions. By the end of the semester, I want them to answer the question, “What is a love story?” I also want them to find new ways to write love stories. With each story or book we read, I ask students to think about what those texts say about love and sex because there are so many different ways to approach these topics. The theme for my graduate workshop this semester is writing love and sex into fiction. This kind of reminds me of a post I saw on Bulk Culture a couple weeks where Barry Graham (I think) said looks don’t really matter in terms of online publishing success.Īn illustrated guide to Mad Men Bed Hopping.
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More on this soon but in the interim, Victoria Patterson at the Los Angeles Review of Books, has written a brief essay, “ Not Pretty,” in response to Franzen’s New Yorker essay.
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Here’s something on what it’s like to have your book turned into a movie.ĭoes Jonathan Franzen have a “ female problem“? I’m not sure but he best back up off my girl Edith. They are having a closeout sale.ĭinty Moore responds to the Lifespan of a Fact situation.Īs an aside, the Oscars were tragically bad weren’t they? The boringness of the ceremony has left me completely unsettled today. Quick Fiction is ceasing operations and they will surely be missed. Also at The Rumpus, an essay by Catherine Chung whose Forgotten Country will be released in March. Alas, Dimitri Nabokov has also passed away.Īt The Rumpus, Kathleen Alcott wrote a beautiful essay about the importance of her name, the writer who is using the name Kate Alcott as a pseudonym, and much more.