Tag: Fiction

‘The Snow Queen’ by Michael Cunningham

“In The Snow Queen, Cunningham reminds us that no matter the form in which love arrives, we should consider ourselves lucky.”

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Emma Donoghue: Making Beautiful Music

“We’re not always in the best place to judge our own work. There’s a lot to be said for just making the book as good as you can, sending it out into the world and not worrying about it.”

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‘Canary’ by Nancy Jo Cullen

Every story in Nancy Jo Cullen’s debut collection skates along the edge of weirdness. These characters are just a tiny bit off, drawing the reader into their delightful eccentricities.

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Red-framed Glasses and a Gold Star: The Art of Writing Good Fiction

“…good writing—good fiction—begins with an

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‘Pacific Rimming’ by Tom Cardamone

I am even less than

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Q&A With Self-published Writer Tom Schabarum

Last year was big one

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John Schuyler Bishop: The Strange Loves of Henry David Thoreau

“In all I read about him, Thoreau never really became more than the wooden icon who tramped the woods and wrote brilliant essays. But he was a living, breathing, gay man who yearned for love…”

A few bold scholars have explored the mystery of Henry David Thoreau’s love life, but author John Schuyler Bishop has now written a novel about it, appropriately titled Thoreau in Love.

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A.M. Homes Wins The Women’s Prize Amid Controversy

There’s been a great deal of snarkiness about this literary prize. “Why only women?” “Isn’t this sexism in reverse?”

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‘Survival Skills: Stories’ by Jean Ryan

The natural world looms large

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