Essays
January 18, 2011
The Story Problem: 10 Thoughts on Academia’s Novel Crisis 71
by Cathy Day
The rhythm of school is conducive to the writing of small things, not big things, and we don’t try hard enough to think beyond that rhythm because, for many of us, it’s the only rhythm we know.
January 13, 2011
The Writer at The Memory Table 2
by Amy Halloran
The workings of the mind and the creative process are ripe subjects for memoir, perhaps more so when the author has suffered from a traumatic brain injury.
January 12, 2011
Writing from the Garret: The Joys and Dangers of Readership 6
by Edan Lepucki
I’ve been wondering a lot about how sharing one’s writing with a larger audience alters one’s process–how having multiple readers, a potential world of them, can strengthen that process, and challenge it, and how it can also, if you aren’t careful, wound and compromise it.
January 11, 2011
Exiles of Historical Fiction 4
by Snowden Wright
The saying goes, “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it,” but in reference to historical fiction, a better saying would be, “Those who don’t add something new to the past are simply repeating it.”
January 7, 2011
Robert Musil and The Man Without Qualities: Imperial Vienna as a Portrait of Now 3
by Matthew Gallaway
Robert Musil wrote The Man Without Qualities in the 1930s, but his modernist elegy to Belle Époque Vienna offers an achingly familiar picture of dissolution and malaise.
January 6, 2011
Interactive Art: What Video Games Can Learn from Freud 8
by Rob Goodman
What if the best thing art has to offer is freedom from choice?
