The MFA Octopus: Four Questions about Creative Writing
Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?
Is contemporary fiction really so mediocre?
Despite how much she has been dissected, analyzed, and worshipped, something about Marilyn Monroe remains forever elusive.
There’s a voice that, while still a bit controlled, opens on to something savage, even ugly.
Until the end of his life, Ballard insisted that science fiction was the most important form of literature to emerge during the twentieth century.
One of the most dynamic and least recognized songwriters of his time.
By now we are tired of thinking about Freedom.
More polarizing than any other aspect of Franzen's writing is just how merciless he can be....
Where do writers come from? Even though it's fictionalized, witnessing the birth of Zora the storyteller feels like a privilege.
Every life, properly understood, is compelling.
Do these performances tacitly acknowledge the darkest side of the American character? Or are they merely manifestations of Bogart's own dark side?
At heart, this is conventional stuff, but Crais uses the conventions to maximum effect.
ON AUGUST 12, 2006, in the waning hours of the second Lebanon war, Israeli Staff Sgt. Uri Grossman, still a couple weeks shy of his twenty-first...
TIMOTHY DONNELLY'S SECOND BOOK of poetry arrives with considerable fanfare. The Cloud Corporation is a scary bedtime book, one that sometimes slips...
Montaigne invented the genre of the essay, one suspects, because he himself was an essay
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An offshore oil platform stood up out of its windward end like the metal handle of a dagger that had stabbed the world and made it spill black blood.