Lists
September 6, 2011
Ten Things I’ve Learned over 12 Years of Sending Out Stories 20
by Josh Rolnick
Perhaps the most embarrassing (and humbling) rejection I received was: “Sorry – but we can’t consider anything with an f word in it. You surely must know that BYU is church-sponsored.”
August 10, 2011
Homage vs. Rip-off: An Interview with Lev Grossman and a Guide to Literary Allusions in The Magician King 12
by Cassandra Neace
“When people think you’ve plagiarized from another writer, rather than alluded to them, the reaction is extreme. They get angry. It’s a dangerous game; you have to get it right.”
August 2, 2011
DMV Redux: An Expanded List of Writers Who Met Death By Motor Vehicle 7
by Bill Morris
When we posted our “List of Writers Who Met Death By Motor Vehicle” here recently, we acknowledged that the list was most likely far from exhaustive. Readers proved us right. Today, thanks to reader comments, we expand our tribute to writers who left us too soon.
July 5, 2011
Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2011 Book Preview 45
by Editor
At 7,500 words strong and encompassing 66 titles, this is the only second-half of 2011 book preview you will ever need.
June 24, 2011
Six Egyptian Writers You Don’t Know But You Should 13
by Pauls Toutonghi
More writers from Egypt made the longlist for the $50,000, 2011 International Arabic Prize for Fiction (IPAF) than writers from any other country. And now it was Egypt’s Arab Spring. Where was the work of these men and women, work that was a catalyst for the ongoing social transformation of the largest nation in the Middle East?
June 23, 2011
D.M.V.: An Incomplete List of Writers Who Met Death by Motor Vehicle 22
by Bill Morris
Is it my imagination, or do an inordinate number of writers die in motor vehicle accidents?