Workshop Heretic

"The Meeting" by Alex Olhin is about three ways capitalism can kill you. The first is slow and figurative, the second slow and lit...

For a story that's all about absences, "Mbiu Dash" by Okwiri Oduor sure begins with a lot of presence. "We were all there...

We've had to buy a lot of crappy, assemble-it-yourself furniture over the years. That's what the budget allowed. I'm not the han...

There's a lot of overlap between the work of comics and the work of fiction writers. Both entertain, both observe the every day in a way...

The other day, Andrew, a writer who has kindly been reading both this blog and my buddy Karen's blog for years, posted in the comments t...

Once, as an undergraduate, I was at a party with my English professors and we were discussing what we were reading. At the time, I was tryin...

If you've read my blog for any length of time, you're probably aware that I have an affinity for an old-world view of theme. I like ...