The Little Blue Kite

S. Tremaine Nelson is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Columbia University MFA Program, where he was the recipient of a Dean’s Chair Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The Northwest Review, The Southern Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Village Voice. A former fiction reader at The New Yorker, he lives in Portland, Oregon.

S. Tremaine Nelson

A Gorgeous Nightmare: On Mark Z. Danielewski’s “The Little Blue Kite”

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa

Art &amp; Architecture

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

S. Tremaine Nelson is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the Columbia University MFA Program, where he was the recipient of a Dean’s Chair Fellowship. His writing has appeared in The Northwest Review, The Southern Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Village Voice. A former fiction reader at The New Yorker, he lives in Portland, Oregon.