Genre as Liberation: Lee Irby on Learning to Manipulate Thriller TropesGenres can be stern taskmasters, none more so than the thriller with its conventions of suspense that come variously from Aristotle, Poe…Apr 24, 2017A response icon5Apr 24, 2017A response icon5
I Traveled Halfway Around the World to Discover Gratitude For My MarriageI was finding it really hard to be grateful for just about anything.Feb 15, 2017A response icon1Feb 15, 2017A response icon1
The Lasting Brilliance of ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’Like many people my age or younger, I came to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by way of the film adaptation: Ridley Scott’s 1982…Jan 23, 2017A response icon2Jan 23, 2017A response icon2
Sinclair Lewis and the Challenge to DemocracyAlthough Sinclair Lewis is known to many as the author of such bestsellers as Main Street, Babbitt, and Elmer Gantry, he’s been…Jan 18, 2017A response icon2Jan 18, 2017A response icon2
Bram Stoker’s 1876 Fan Letter to Walt WhitmanWhen Bram Stoker discovered Walt Whitman, he was a young man only just beginning a literary career that would eventually create one of the…Nov 28, 2016A response icon4Nov 28, 2016A response icon4
Write On: 27 of the Best Books on WritingWriting is, as a general rule, hard. Defining yourself as a writer can be even harder. Sure, there are other difficult practices like law…Nov 10, 2016A response icon23Nov 10, 2016A response icon23
Surviving NaNoWriMo, the Tough Mudder of Writing ChallengesThat chill felt by writers at the sound of the words “National Novel Writing Month” is more than just a brisk fall wind.Oct 24, 2016A response icon5Oct 24, 2016A response icon5
This is How Literary Fiction Teaches Us to Be HumanThink about every bully you can remember, whether from fiction or real life. What do they all have in common?Oct 10, 2016A response icon19Oct 10, 2016A response icon19
Erik Larson on the Art of StorytellingBy Scott PorchOct 3, 2016A response icon1Oct 3, 2016A response icon1