Why Writers Should Read Short Form Literature
…/ Character / Plot. Joyce Carol Oates, “Wolf’s Head Lake.” Tone / Mood / Voice / POV. Davy Rothbart, “How I Got Here.” POV / Character / Voice. Joy Williams,…
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Episode 449: Genre Hopping, Process, and Time Management: The Life of a Working Writer — Interview with Courtney Maum
…brands. A nominee for the Joyce Carol Oates prize and the host of the monthly “Beyond Fiction” conversation series at Edith Wharton’s The Mount, Courtney’s essays and articles on creativity…
How Finding My Tribe Helped Silence My Self-Doubt
…was an issue, right? Authors had MFAs, with fancy acronyms after their names, and read crap by James Joyce. Obviously, my next step was to try and emulate them. How…
Cozy to Cold-Blooded: My Auto-Buy Series, Part 2
…leaving you marveling, then these are the books for you. Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman Premise: Joyce, Ron, Ibrahim, and Elizabeth are residents of Cooper’s Chase retirement home…
LGBTQ+ Literature in Translation: Notes of a Desolate Man
…an incredible range of philosophical explorations. It’s the kind of storytelling one might expect from, say, a Tolstoy or Woolf; from a Joyce or Steinbeck. Perhaps the closest comparison I…
Short Fiction Suggested Reading
…Style / Voice. Alice Munro, “Free Radicals.” Dialogue / Character / Plot. Joyce Carol Oates, “Wolf’s Head Lake.” Tone / Mood / Voice / POV. Davy Rothbart, “How I Got…
Kid Lit Craft: Interview with Heather Mateus Sappenfield
…bro” to her mom’s guardian angel. Joyce, company secretary, arm-wrestler, and mechanic, still calls Rill a fingerling, but, after learning what a cheater water is, Rill wishes she’d stop. When…
A Down and Dirty Guide to Short Fiction
…happen fast. I write horror and that means continuous tension until the climax or beyond. Short stories are perfect venues for surprise endings, a plot twist, or what James Joyce…
Myths and Truths about Writing
…with Fred Leebron, Bob Bausch, Richard Bausch, Lary Bloom, Joyce Maynard, Sue Levine, and Wally Lamb, and published five adult novels, one middle-grade novel, and one collection of quirky short…
Be Well, Write Well: An Interview with Julie Maloney
…by Elizabeth Strout. Ask me how many times I’ve read “We Were the Mulvaneys” by Joyce Carol Oates. I can read a page or paragraph from these and put the…
