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A major literary writer has switched up their style entirely, and it's a huge improvement

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One fiction journal has left me stumped. I can't get a handle on it.
Once upon a time, there existed a set of journals that published primarily fiction and were extremely popular.
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The good guy always wins. Because he's so good. That's why he wins.
The people of this village could not remember a time before the law.
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This pulp fiction journal had sleazy covers and a low circulation. But it still produced an iconic character.
For the past week, I’ve been reading a set of stories, written by Robert E.
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Samuel Richardson Prize deadline is July 31 + open thread
The rules for the contest are here, but the summary is that entries to the Samuel Richardson Prize should be longer than 40,000 words, and they…
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This genre has no name, so I just call it ‘regular non-fiction books’
If you read my interview a few weeks ago with Irina Dumitrescu, a prolific book reviewer and literary essayist, then you know that the nonfiction world…
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This literary genre was dropped from the canon. But maybe it had something to offer.
Recently I introduced a friend to Dwight MacDonald’s 1960 essay “Masscult and Midcult”, and she was beyond horrified by the snobby tone.
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It might be integrity, or it might be cowardice
Andi had a very strong opinion about a particular issue.
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