Every story that has appeared in The New Yorker since 2007 is currently available to be read online, free of charge, before the magazine’s site institutes a pay wall later this year. See for yourself by […]
Category: Serious Literature
Highlights From James Franco’s New Short Story “Bungalow 89”
The literature of James Franco defies any and all analysis. It simply…is. His motivations baffle. His creations perplex. To understand the how or why behind his writing is to understand the language of beasts. Comprehension […]
How Ashamed About Reading YA Books Are You?
Slate.com, that infamous fount of intellectual discourse, published an article yesterday whose gist was that adults who read YA fiction should be ashamed about reading YA fiction. Considering the fantastic stupidity of that argument, Baby […]
My Chipotle Cup Flash Fiction
In an effort to promote the reading of literary fiction, ubiquitous burrito purveyor Chipotle Mexican Grill has started superimposing little short stories on its fountain soda cups. The campaign has attracted some of the “biggest” […]
The Strawberry Criterion: The Goldfinch
To view The Goldfinch through the lens of the traditional novel is to view an object with one eye closed–as an image robbed of its true depth. Discussions of character, plot, authorial biography and style, […]
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