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Price vs. Value
Image credit: Flickr How much does a book cost? What’s the value of a book? Obvious as it sounds, those are two separate questions—but as Kassia Krozser points out on her lit blog Booksquare, they’re...
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Further Thoughts on Translation
Over at MelvilleHouse Publishing there’s an interesting blog post, In Support of Translation, along with responses, about the Best Translated Book Award being funded by Amazon. Editor Dennis Loy...
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Dzanc eBook Club
Image Credit: Flickr Addicted to browsing the shelves of used bookstores for that $3 copy of Chekhov’s stories? Sad you can’t do the same with your e-reader? Well, Dzanc’s eBook Club comes close,...
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Thursday morning candy: Tin House
The founders of Tin House – magazine, book publisher, workshop destination – put their mission best, so I won’t try to improve upon it: The first issue of Tin House magazine arrived in the spring of...
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Burst of Inspiration: A Flash Interview with Meg Pokrass
One of the highlights of working with Fiction Writers Review over the past two and a half years has been watching our readers’ own writing take off—from first published stories to debut novels and...
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Binocular Vision, by Edith Pearlman
All readers have their tricks of habit when standing in the bookstore, looking for a new book to buy. Some read the first page; others pick paragraphs at random in the center. I read first lines. I’m a...
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Dzanc Duo: Aaron Burch and Matt Bell
How to Predict the Weather, by Aaron Burch (Keyhole Press, Nov. 2010) How They Were Found, by Matt Bell (Keyhole Press, Oct. 2010) The writers of Dzanc Books have received O. Henry and Best American...
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Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, by Alissa Nutting
I’m a traditionalist when it comes to reading fiction, but sometimes I look for a kick. Years ago I began to pay attention to Starcherone Books’ prize winners when Zachary Mason’s The Lost Books of the...
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Surfers and Cowboys: An Interview with Robert Garner McBrearty
Robert Garner McBrearty is a quiet guy. He doesn’t walk into a room glad-handing and trying to work the crowd, and you’re not likely to find him tracking visitors to his website via Google Analytics....
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The Performance and the Page: An Interview with Megan Stielstra
2nd Story is a live performance series and literary organization based in Chicago, bringing together writers, performers, and city-wide theater players to produce four live shows each month at...
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Ideas of Home: An Interview with Douglas Trevor
Girls I Know, Douglas Trevor’s debut novel, which was released this spring by Sixoneseven Books, is set in Boston and tells the story of a twenty-nine year old graduate-school-dropout Walt Steadman,...
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Villains and Heroes: An Interview with Samuel Sattin
It’s not often that I come across a book-length skewering of genre conventions that is also an extended homage to genre itself. League of Somebodies (Dark Coast Press) is a rare gem—rude and...
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