In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Emilia Phillips’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) (To use the PDF embedder to see additional …
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Rachael Uwada Clifford’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) The Unpassing. Chia-Chia Lin. Farrar, Straus and …
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Shannon Fandler’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.) The Collected Schizophrenias. Esmé Weijun Wang. Graywolf, 2019. …
In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” which we printed in excerpted form in the issue (available with the entire feature here) but provide here in full: I teach in an MFA …
When my father could no longer live independently in the home where I was raised, my brother and I cleared the place out and sold it. My brother claimed a bounty of bric-a-brac from the house, including two sets of dinnerware, a snowblower, and my mother’s wedding dress. Over and over again, he and his …
In this microessay, Kimberly Elkins explores the intoxication of a dangerous adolescent game and how it colors all that follows in the character’s life.
Poet GC Waldrep shares the experiences behind his poem “The Arrhythmias,” including horrible dreams, stolen peaches, and a childhood book with a bright turquoise color.
