Sea Moss Spotlight: New and Improved
The Chicago Manual of Style is a living document, but its life is a slow and sessile one, more on the timescale of a tree or a small coral reef than of a human being.
Lily Davenport
Sea Moss Spotlight: Hyphens and Their Kin
What did the hyphen do to deserve this isolation? does it harbor a contagious illness, like some typographic Typhoid Mary?
SFF Settings I’d Vacation In: The Vanished Birds
In The Vanished Birds, Simon Jiminez offers the tour of a lifetime, though whether that lifetime lasts fifty years or a thousand depends on which traveler you ask.
SFF Settings I’d Vacation In: Gideon the Ninth
Break out your cashmere robes and your thickest skeleton-knitted gloves and socks, and don’t forget to accessorize for your chapel tour with a string of locally sourced prayer bones.
Getting Away with It: Epistolary Fiction
The epistolary toolkit is a rich and varied one—it insists on the reader’s interpretive participation, and offers powerful methods for developing character and setting and for playing with the progression of time. So: what, supposedly, is wrong with it?