Fiction

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

War in Pieces: Violence and Conflict in David Mitchell’s “The Bone Clocks”
An examination of the prominent themes of war and violence in David Mitchell’s work, particularly his recent Bone Clocks, and how these themes are always heavily couched in the narrative experiences of characters who he brings to life with an honesty and realism befitting a master of his craft.
Glyn MorganOct 30, 2015
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Never Be Afraid to Suck
The first piece you write that your family hates means you’ve found your voice.
Haig ChahinianOct 29, 2015
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The Blue-Collar King: An Interview with Stephen King
Stephen King talks genre, politics, and the proletariat novelist.
Angela S. AllanOct 25, 2015
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A Fortress of Solitude
"The Weight of Things" is the tip of an iceberg of desolation.
Amanda DeMarcoOct 23, 2015
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(Un)fictional Geographies
Jennine Capó Crucet, author of "Make Your Home Among Strangers," talks to fellow novelist Alex Espinoza.
Alex EspinozaOct 19, 2015
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Novels Don’t Lie: A Conversation Between Robert Kloss and Colin Winnette
As a culture and as a literature we lose something when the poets and storytellers abdicate the telling of the national myth to historians and academics.
Colin Winnette, Robert KlossOct 14, 2015
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Keep, Don’t Kill, Your Darlings
Laura van den Berg interviews Matthew Salesses on the difficulties with writing conflict in narrative
Laura van den BergOct 10, 2015
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E. L. Doctorow’s Postmodernist Style
When was it that we read an academic essay devoted to E. L. Doctorow's fiction?
Adam KellyOct 9, 2015
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Speaking with Lily Tuck About Autofiction, Narrative
With "The Double Life of Liliane," Tuck returns to playing with form, telling a fictionalized version of her own coming-of-age story.
Oct 8, 2015
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Sex and the Sacred Text: Michelle Tea on the Republication of Eileen Myles’s “Chelsea Girls”
I most remember reading "Chelsea Girls" in the dark, at bars around San Francisco in the '90s …
Michelle TeaOct 4, 2015
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A Portrait of Marriage in Two Parts
Lauren Groff's "Fates and Furies" is a portrait of a marriage in two parts: "Fates" (his) and "Furies" (hers).
Catherine SteindlerSep 30, 2015
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Victoria Patterson Discusses “The Little Brother”
"I'd been following the Greg Haidl rap case and wanting to write about it for quite some time. How did the lawyers manage to get a mistrial?"
Barbara DeMarco-BarrettSep 30, 2015
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