Sometimes good writers write very badly. As evidence, Literary Hub has collected samples of bad writing from the likes of Year in Reading alum Isaac Fitzgerald and Daniel Clowes, who we interviewed here.
Bad from Good
This Is Not a Novel
Lindsey Drager considers the novella and argues that it is neither a feminine form nor a smaller type of novel. As she puts it, “while other fiction aims outward, the novella curls in, coiling around itself until there’s no distinction between the story’s body and the story’s shell.” Pair with our own Nick Ripatrazone’s essay on the art of the novella.
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The Primetime Magicians
Jonathan Franzen and Chad Harbach aren't the only two authors adapting their works for television. Lev Grossman is working on an hour-long Fox series based on his novel The Magicians.
The Great Debates
Christopher Beha just finished reading the complete works of Henry James and writes for The New Yorker about the experience while also touching on both "The Great Y.A." and "The Great Goldfinch" debates.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Occupy Lessons
Does Washington D.C. still have enough revolutionary spirit to drive the Occupy movement to the impossible-to-ignore phase of Resurrection City? Even after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, his message of economic equality presses on.
Then Again, Most American’s Don’t
Do you live in one of the world's ten most literary cities? I don't.
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