Notable Articles
May 31, 2011
Kindle-Proof Your Book in Seven Easy Steps! 27
by Garth Risk Hallberg
For the Luddite writer who wants to put her royalties where her mouth is, I offer the choicest trade secrets…plus a Top 10 list of eBook-resistant texts.
May 16, 2011
The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels 103
by Mark O'Connell
…and some other observations of doubtful critical merit.
April 25, 2011
What We Call What Women Write 70
by Deena Drewis
In the wake of comments Jennifer Egan made after her Pulitzer win, former Egan fans are uniting under the notion that in addition to being a meanie, Egan is setting feminists back 50 years. How could she?
April 19, 2011
How Avant Is It? Zadie Smith, Tom McCarthy, and the Novel’s Way Forward 23
by Garth Risk Hallberg
Huge claims have been made on behalf of the novelist Tom McCarthy. But what do they actually tell us about “the future of fiction?”
February 24, 2011
The Pen, Mightier 34
by Nell Boeschenstein
We care about what our words look like because we somewhere believe that this says something about who we are beyond font or scrawl.
February 7, 2011
On Bad Reviews 70
by Emily St. John Mandel
Given all the years you spent writing your book or composing your music or perfecting your play before someone came along and spat on it, it’s extraordinarily difficult to respond to a bad review with grace.
