Fiction

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

• The New New Africa

  Olufemi Terry on Denis Johnson

  Olufemi TerryDec 13, 2014

  • Fiction

• Carnage Hill, or Frank Bascombe’s Late Years

  Maybe a good life is just living long enough to figure out some essential truth.

  Tod GoldbergDec 13, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

• God Would Bend

  On Blake Butler’s '300,000,000'

  Tiffany GibertDec 13, 2014

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  William Gibson’s Breakfast Burrito

  “The Peripheral is thus less interested in specifying two fully articulated hypothetical futures than in inviting us to reflect on our present-day imaginative relationship to the future …”

  Lee KonstantinouDec 12, 2014

  • Fiction

  • SF

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  You Got Pages?

  Les Plesko and the Art of Writing

  David FrancisDec 11, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Literary Fiction

• Visibility and Invisibility: Vickie Vértiz Investigates the Middle-Class Latinas of Désirée Zamorano’s “The Amado Women”

  In “The Amado Women,” author Désirée Zamorano follows the lives of family matriarch Mercy and her three daughters as they navigate the personal costs of middle-class life.

  Vickie VértizDec 10, 2014

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  An Interview with Alejandro Morales Regarding His New Novel, “River of Angels”

  “From that time on, those photos registered in my memory and wouldn’t let go — what I saw, heard, felt from them.”

  Daniel A. OlivasDec 10, 2014

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  An Aggressive Title: Lindsay Hunter on Ugly Girls

  Teenage girls think a lot about how people look, and there’s a lot of shame and power and emotion tied up in that.

  Claire LuchetteDec 7, 2014

  • Fiction

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  Decommissioned Words: An Interview with Richard Ford

  Don’t say hydrate when you mean drink.

  Jon WienerDec 7, 2014

  • Fiction

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  Tom's Book Club: James Ellroy

  Dec 6, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Noir

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  Emotions Doesn’t Change Facts: Remembering Joseph Hansen

  Surely no other major mystery writer has played such an important role in the maturation of another literary genre in a major American city.

  Bill MohrDec 5, 2014

  • Fiction

  • Gender & Sexuality

  • Poetry

• Is That All There Is to a Novel?

  Erpenbeck’s novel is “like the view from a plane zigzagging through the skies over 20th-century Europe.”

  Marian RyanDec 5, 2014

  • Fiction