Fictionaut Blog

This past Sunday I was a part of a literary magazine extravaganza at Greenlight Bookstore, a new bookstore in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. The bookstore hosted readings by Electric Literature, A Public Space, BOMB, and Armchair/Shotgun, who I was there reading for. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Faves, 6/28
   Checking in with Like Birds
   Fictionaut Five: Kyle Minor

What I love about Ann Bogle’s “My Crush on Daniel Ortega.” [Read more]

Recently:
   Checking in with Like Birds
   Fictionaut Five: Kyle Minor
   Luna Digest, 6/22

I try not to take myself too seriously. I just started attending college at Washington University in St. Louis. I will probably publish another short book someday but the truth is that publication wasn’t what I thought it would be. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: Kyle Minor
   Luna Digest, 6/22
   Fictionaut Faves, 6/21. Two for Cherise Wolas

It’s difficult to escape childhood stuff — the family of origin, the childhood fears, the specter of religion. I’ve been thinking a lot about death, about how time reduces possibility, about class inequities, about how our walled-off interior lives and competing agendas make it difficult for us to connect with one another. [Read more]

Recently:
   Luna Digest, 6/22
   Fictionaut Faves, 6/21. Two for Cherise Wolas
   Checking in with The Literary Platform

The second issue of Corium is out, with new work from Gary Percesepe, Jenny Bitner , Roxane Gay, and B.J. Hollars among others. Read Marcelle Heath on Corium’s March debut. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Faves, 6/21. Two for Cherise Wolas
   Checking in with The Literary Platform
   Fictionaut Five: Jensen Beach

“The Italian Lunch (II)” by Cherise Wolas is the narrative equivalent of a matryoshka, those Russian nesting dolls that stack within each other. [Read more]

Recently:
   Checking in with The Literary Platform
   Fictionaut Five: Jensen Beach

The key word circulating in book publishing at the moment is ‘experiment’. Traditional publishers and developers are experimenting with multimedia formats, established authors are going it alone, first-time novelists are bypassing publishers and niche literary magazines are finding their readers. It’s such an interesting time. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: Jensen Beach
   Fictionaut Faves, 6/14

Flannery O’Connor is probably my favorite writer of all time. But there are a whole bunch of writers that have stories or whole books that make me kind of tingle with excitement from the sentences. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Faves, 6/14
   Checking in with Flag Day Challenge
   Fictionaut Five: Scott Garson
   Luna Digest, 6/8

The language of “Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone” by Stephanie Bobo is so damned beautiful that I’m tongue tied trying to write about why it’s one of my favorite stories, not just on Fictionaut but period. Ever. That’s right. Ever. [Read more]

Recently:
   Checking in with Flag Day Challenge
   Fictionaut Five: Scott Garson
   Luna Digest, 6/8

The Flag Day Challenge is an attempt to keep the holiday challenge ideal alive without interfering with too many summer vacations and writing projects. [Read more]

Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: Scott Garson
   Luna Digest, 6/8