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First Lines of Mystery Novels [by Lawrence J. Epstein]
There are readers, and, I suspect, editors and agents who see the first line of a mystery metaphorically, as an anecdote is used. The line is both different from other lines but emblematic of…
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First Lines of Mystery Novels [by Lawrence J. Epstein]
There are readers, and, I suspect, editors and agents who see the first line of a mystery metaphorically, as an anecdote is used. The line is both different from other lines but emblematic of…
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Gender, Genre, & Hybridity: A Conversation Between Kristina Marie Darling & Molly Gaudry
Kristina Marie Darling: I have always admired the way that your texts exist in spite of, beyond, and against traditional genre categories. Your work has the denseness and lyricism of poetry, with gorgeous and…
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Ready To Serve: Black Eyed Peas & Supportive Colleagues As Emotional Mise En Place [by Lindsay Daigle]
(Ed note: This is the third post in our Ready to Serve series. You can find previous posts here. sdh) Eleven Madison Park In 2009, my Saturdays began like this— I’m bobbypinning my hair…
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Review of Julie Babcock’s Autoplay [by Kristina Marie Darling]
Julie Babcock's stunning first collection of poems, Autoplay, offers spare, carefully crafted lyrics that are as familiar as they are uncanny. By invoking the seemingly tame imagery of Midwestern cities, the poems in this…
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Poetic Delirium [by Alan Ziegler]
Good writings happen to those who wait. Children’s author Enid Blyton told Peter McKellar—who was doing research on the imagination—that she has “merely to open the sluice gates.” With her portable typewriter on her…
