Recommended Reading: Sho Spaeth on Renata Adler’s After the Tall Timber.
Well-Constructed
Skin-Deep
Recommended Reading: Hestia Peppe on Lindsay Hunter's Ugly Girls.
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival Joke-Off
Nick Helm took home the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's top humor prize for this groan-worthy joke.
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Poets & Writers’ MFA Rankings
This week I linked to one poet's concerns about the top MFA programs ranked in Poets & Writers. Now, a pretty impressive list of creative writing instructors have some questions for Poets & Writers itself.
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Graphomania
“I’m a total database nerd. In college I worked as a troubleshooter for a database of medical research, trying to predict and prevent mistakes in the data entry process to avoid screwing up the records. Is anything more satisfying than a successfully written query delivering precisely the required results? It’s so much more direct than writing fiction. A query either works or it doesn’t.” Steve Himmer’s Nervous Breakdown self-interview.
Press Start
Readers of the 1960s and 70s ran into many people who worried that writers were learning from television. In 2015, the concern is slightly different -- are writers taking cues from video games? At the Ploughshares blog, Matthew Burnside tackles the game-ification of books.
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