Sunday, December 30, 2018

Saving the best punches for the final round: "What's Wrong with You? What's Wrong with Me?" by J. M. Holmes

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Fiction writing "rules" are, of course, meant to be broken, but J.M. Holmes' "What's Wrong with You? What's Wrong...
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Sunday, December 23, 2018

The right use of irony: "The Armed Letter Writers" by Olufunke Ogundimu

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I didn't blog about it, because I'm only covering the fiction in the 2019 Pushcart Anthology, but the opening entry in Pushcart this...
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Friday, December 21, 2018

The re-boot as literature: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Anthony Marra

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Normally, when someone writes a story that is obviously "after," or in direct homage to, a well-known work of literature, it's...
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Thursday, December 20, 2018

A story too strong for its container: "The Tornado Auction" by Karen Russell

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Once in a while, a story will try to give you clues about how to approach it embedded in the story itself. In the terrible Christmas movie ...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Literary criticism without a net: my attempt to analyze Han Kang's "The Vegetarian"

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In early November, I finished the re-write of my novel and decided to just read for a few months, taking some time off of writing. The first...
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Sunday, December 16, 2018

A centrist--Am I a centrist? I guess I'm sort of a centrist--discovers the "Enlightened Centrism" sub-Reddit

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One of the themes I often push on here is that while I'm politically liberal, I also find a lot of contemporary liberal rhetoric either ...
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Saturday, December 8, 2018

Is there another color pill besides blue or red?

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I've referred a lot on this site to my past as an evangelical. There are a lot of reasons I keep recalling those days. One is that even ...
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