The Rise of the Fragmented Novel (An Essay in 26 Fragments ) ...
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Mainstream literary fiction is falling to pieces.
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This may not be a bad thing.
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The fragmented novel has been a mainstay of the literary world for...
How the Yugoslav Wars Shaped a Generation of Writers – By Lidija Dimkovska
“What was happening in Croatia and more generally throughout Yugoslavia was discussed at the university, often in connection with soldiers from the Yugoslav National...
Time to Rise – Cli-Fi and the Responsibility of New Visions – By Jim...
Cli-Fi cuts too close to home. Climate Fiction isn’t exactly speculative fiction or science fiction. It is the right here, right now. Our destructiveness...
When Earth and Sky Intermingle : Science and Poetry – By Michael G. Smith
Poetry has never revealed its full face to anyone. Its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It defies any attempt at a...
What is a Poem ? – By Michael Angel Martin
What Is a Poem? Not Sure. But Let Me Count the Ways
One of the best lessons I have learned as a writer of...
Notes on Conceptual Fiction – By Ted Gioia
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Is it possible that the idea of "realism" as a guiding principle for fiction is itself unrealistic? After all, there are no Newtonian laws in stories—an...
Translation as Transhumance – By Mireille Gansel (Translated from the French by Ros Schwartz)...
(In this beautiful memoir of a life lived in and through translation, Mireille Gansel defines the process of bringing words from one language to...
‘Landscape Painted with Tea’ as an Ecological Novel – By Jasmina Mihajlovic
"Suddenly I freeze. I sense, I clearly sense, somebody watching me. Somebody's eyes are fixed upon me. And then I realize that staring out...
The Eight Memes of the Postmodern Mystery – By Ted Gioia
What do postmodern writers have against the mystery novel? For reasons that perhaps only a Lacan or Derrida could deconstruct, they have turned to it again...
The Long Weeping – By Jessie van Eerden ( An excerpt )
( The Long Weeping - In this collection of portraits, the eye is the vital “lamp of the body,” a spiritual organ...
