Forgive me Philip Roth, for I have sinned. First of all, I’m confessing as though I was that kind of Catholic and according to that weird guy at Barnes & Noble you’re an atheist. So…
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What fiction ought to be
“He and Franzen talked a lot about what writing should be for. “We had this feeling that fiction ought to be good for something,” Franzen says. “Basically, we decided it was to combat loneliness.” This…
Missing the mark
Good God Almighty! I wish I could make sweet, sweet love to Lionel Shriver’s WSJ piece about the lack of proper quotation marks in a lot of literary fiction’s dialog. Sing it, Sister! I hate…
In case you hadn’t noticed
There’s been some interesting stuff going on over at Minnesota Reads that you don’t even have to be a Minnesotan to enjoy. First, there’s a 6Qs interview with playwright Max Sparber, and the next two…
Trying to save you from the vapidness of Downtown Owl
In a Pop Matters interview Chuck Klosterman says, “It was harder to write fiction, but maybe that was only because I’d never done it before. I can’t remember if writing Fargo Rock City was hard…