Michael Bourne is a contributing editor at Poets & Writers and a staff writer for the online literary site The Millions. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The Potomac Review, The Orange Coast Review, River City, Oakland Review, and online at Tin House's Flash Fridays. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Lasting Influence of Scott Turow's "Presumed Innocent"
Twenty-six years after its publication, Scott Turow’s bestselling legal thriller Presumed Innocent has helped shape the literary world we live in today....
FICTION: NEW & NOTEWORTHY
The Lasting Influence of SCOTT TUROW's Presumed Innocent AMOS OZ Returns to the Kibbutz in Between Friends ¤...
The Curious History of "The Inconvenient Indian"
Why a book about Indians that was rejected by 31 American publishers became a runaway bestseller in Canada....
“The Ritalin Kid of Contemporary American Letters”: The Problem with Sam Lipsyte’s Latest Stories
PERHAPS NO LITERARY FORM is more a creation of market forces and tradition than the short story. A novel can go ...
Promiscuity Without Consequence: James Meek on an Immoral Majority
IMAGINE YOU ARE a celebrity harboring a secret that could make you a national pariah overnight. One day the phone rings, ...
Species Decline: On Lydia Millet's 'Magnificence'
FIFTY PAGES INTO Lydia Millet’s novel Magnificence, her heroine Susan Lindley, a recently widowed secretary, inherits an enormous mansion ...
An Antic Satire of the Dubya Years
Trapped by the aptness of his metaphor....
