Missives Impossible
I have an appointment with the twenty-first century,Baldwin tells one interviewer, less than a decade before his death in 1987. I guess I feel like I’m part of that appointment,…
Astral Travels with Jack London
On the centenary of Jack London's death, Benjamin Breen looks at the writer's last book to be published in his lifetime, The Star Rover — a strange tale about solitary…
In Search of Lost Stein
DESPITE HER REPUTATION as a long-winded writer, Gertrude Stein had a talent for pithiness. Of Oakland, the town where she grew up, she famously remarked: “There is no there, there.”…
Kristen Bell Is the Star of a New Jesus Podcast From Fox. No One Told Her
The network announced a host of stars as part of its new The Life of Jesus Podcast. They failed to mention the audio was recorded for a different project in…
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF
To start, one of the problems with the Must Read Magazines business model is that any progress achieved by a single author doesn’t accrue to all authors. Each author must…
The reasons why are there are no reasons
evolution isn't goal-oriented
Raising the Bardo
Amie Barrodale’s contemporary book of the dead
Quite Contrary
Arundhati Roy’s memoir of her mother
Tumblr Dialogue how-to thread
“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.
Looking for Love in a Time of Global Loneliness: A Profile of Kiran Desai
Within the first few pages of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, Kiran Desai’s stunning new novel, the fissures among generations, cultures, classes, and countries become abundantly clear. When Dadaji…