Podcasts and Literary Criticism
If listening to your favorite podcast is like meeting your best friends at the bar, then reading a 500-word book review is like sharing an elevator with a casual acquaintance. There’s a chance both...
View ArticleA Space Ripe for Experimentation: The Future of Print Literary Journals
Most writers I know submit to online journals first, and, in some cases, exclusively. Online publication often happens significantly faster than print, can reach a much wider audience, and the pay is...
View ArticleEverything I Don’t Know About Swords: On Teaching Creative Writing
1. One evening in grad school, half-drunk and Googling my own name, I found a blog run by one of my fiction students. I shouldn’t have read it, but of course I read it. “I already hate this class,” she...
View ArticleWho Will Buy Your Book?
1. “Nobody else is here,” the elderly woman said into her phone. “It’s embarrassing!” She was the first one to arrive at my reading at the Philadelphia Library, a week after the release of my third...
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