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Samuel Richardson Prize deadline is July 31 + open thread
The rules for the contest are here, but the summary is that entries to the Samuel Richardson Prize should be longer than 40,000 words, and they should've been self-published in the last five years and available to be purchased or read online. There are ten judges, including myself—we will each pick
One fiction journal has left me stumped. I can't get a handle on it.
Once upon a time, there existed a set of journals that published lots of fiction and were extremely popular. They were printed on slick, glossy paper and for this reason they were known as 'the slicks'. These journals often had circulations in the millions, and they paid thousands of dollars per sto
The good guy always wins. Because he's so good. That's why he wins.
The people of this village could not remember a time before the law. They could not remember a time when they had solved disputes simply, according to custom, without resorting to trial or punishment. Could not remember a time when theft was unknown and murder was rare, when simple goodness had reig
This genre has no name, so I just call it ‘regular non-fiction books’
If you read my interview a few weeks ago with Irina Dumitrescu, a prolific book reviewer and literary essayist, then you know that the nonfiction world is something that has baffled me. That interview was about literary essays, but what's even more baffling to me is the world of nonfiction books. Li
This pulp fiction journal had sleazy covers and a low circulation. But it still produced an iconic character.
For the past week, I've been reading a set of stories, written by Robert E. Howard in the early 1930s, about a tall, brawny, sword-wielding adventurer named Conan.These stories take place in a fantasy world that resembles the early Iron Age, and in these tales, Conan is sometimes a thief, sometimes