This is gonna be quick and dirty this week ’cause I’m heading to the homeland for dominoes with my daddy, biscuits and sausage gravy, some John 3:16 Pizza (I don’t know the real name, but it’s a great pizza joint…
Many authors’ reactions to using social media are akin to being forced to eat your green peas as a kid. Look, I hate green peas. But if you add a sprinkle of this and a dash of that (or add…
The days are still bright and hot throughout much of the country, but September and current events around the world have us in a darker, more contemplative mood. Sometimes, the biggest gift of stories is the opportunity to escape reality for a…
Lori Ostlund’s debut novel After the Parade follows the progress of ESL instructor Aaron Englund as he builds a new life for himself in San Francisco and reflects on a small-town upbringing in Minnesota. Ostlund’s first collection of stories, The…
By Guest Contributor Anjali Mitter Duva. In Rajasthan, a desert state in the northwest of India, many five-year old children have never seen rain. In the winter of 2001, as I prepared for a trip to the fortress city of…
Long holiday weekends are not for making plans to go out with friends or family or for trips to the beach or a barbecue. Long holiday weekends are for catching up on all the writing and critiques I promised to get…