<h4>Michael LaPointe is a writer and critic in Toronto, Canada. He contributes to the Times Literary Supplement and writes a monthly literary essay for The Walrus.</h4>

Michael LaPointe

Who Is the Me?

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens

The Armageddon of New China

The Dream of My Return

Paranoia, the Realistic Response

Can't and Won't

The Book Gets Fatter: Lydia Davis's "Can't and Won't"

At Night We Walk in Circles

Second Acts: Daniel Alarcón's "At Night We Walk in Circles"

The Darlings

Fear of Flying

<h4>Dina Gachman's comedic blog about the economic divide, Bureaucracy for Breakfast, has been featured on NPR and Chelsea Handler's Borderline Amazing Comedy. Her writing has appeared in Forbes, The Los Angeles Times, The Hairpin, Ask Men, and Glamour. She's written comic books about Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, both published by Bluewater Comics. You can find her on <a href="https://twitter.com/theelf26" target="_blank">Twitter @TheElf26</a>.  </h4>

Dina Gachman

<h4 class="p1">Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics program. He is the author of States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel (2012) and Narrative Care (2013) and editor of Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012) and The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Vol. 1 (2013). He edits Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the critical theory/philosophy section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also a member of the boundary 2 collective and an Advisory Editor for the Oxford Literary Review.</h4>

Arne De Boever

Fiction: New & Noteworthy

The Infatuations 

Death Becomes Her

Michael LaPointe is a writer and critic in Toronto, Canada. He contributes to the Times Literary Supplement and writes a monthly literary essay for The Walrus.