Break out your book of grudges because River Styx literary magazine has decided on the theme for their next issue: Revenge.
A literary magazine best served cold.
The New Yorker on the TSA
The New Yorker posts its airport security cartoons, from 1938 to the present.
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Long Form Back in Vogue
Is long form nonfiction returning to prominence and popularity? Folks at The LA Times' blog think so. Anna Clark has posted a list of recommended reading for aspiring nonfiction writers, too.
Conversations over Stolen Food (in Illicit Spaces)
The Faster Times offers up a new dialogue from dynamic duo Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch’s "Conversations over Stolen Food," which seamlessly segues from Astroglide and Fung Wah buses to Alaskan Brown Bears, and includes a run-in with New York Park Patrol. Images by Paper Monument editor Dushko Petrovich are added eye candy.
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Elif Batuman on Reading the Russians
Essayist and Russian literature scholar Elif Batuman in an interview with the Boston Globe on how the Russians get the combination of "funny and sad" better than the Germans, the English, or the French.
Raunchiness in YA
Tracy Clark-Flory has written a defense of "raunchy" teen literature for Salon.
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