Advice for genre-influenced writers who are applying to MFA programs (part one, two, three, and four)
Writing a novel in eight days (parts one, two, three, four, five, six)
The third novel (parts one, two, three, and four)
800 short story rejections (700, 600, 500, 400 and 300)
Today I wrote my one millionth word of crap
What do you do when the writing isn't easy?
I've just freed myself from the tyranny of duotrope
Why I am going to stop giving out writing advice (2012)
Why I am loathe to give writing advice (2011)
The worst-case scenario for my writing career
There should be a National Coming-Out Day for people whose favorite novel is _Atlas Shrugged_
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste, by Carl Wilson
The Feminine Mystique (part one and part two)
The Pursuit of Love, by Nancy Mitford
The Second Shift, by Arlene Russell Hochschild
The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust
Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother is a literary masterpiece
The Hunt For Red October might be the most uncool book in the English language
The main thing I've learned from Banned Books Week is that book banning is a pretty minor problem
I Write About "My Stephen King Problem"
The Collected Poems of Phillip Larkin
What does it mean to be against the canon?
Confessions of a Pick-up Artist Chaser
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
Does anyone actually enjoy cliffhangers? (A Dance With Dragons)
Authors who I've read in depth
The first and last novels that made me cry
Life is too short to waste time on boring books
Against Interpretation, by Susan Sontag
God's Harvard, by Hannah Rosin
The Pillow Book, by Sei Shonagon
If you die and leave me with your brilliant unfinished manuscripts, I will burn them
Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve comics
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
Crime novels with interesting structures
And The Band Played On, by Randy Shilts
The Sportswriter, by Richard Ford
Some pretty awesome plotless novels
The poverty and evanescence of literary acclaim in SF
Why I am deeply suspicious of Malcolm Gladwell
The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
The first science fiction novel
Do you folks enjoy reading poetry?
Anatomy of a literary pageturner
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
A Journal of the Plague Year, by Daniel Defoe
Vanity Fair, by William Makeapeace Thackeray
“If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”
Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Burmese Days, by George Orwell
Horatio Hornblower, by C.S. Forester
Rahul's Question: Where are all the bad books?
Notes from the first week of an MFA program
The Beardmancipation Proclamation
The second season of the Game of Thrones
The Game of Thrones television show is superior to the books.
Thoughts engendered by my return to computer gaming after an absence of two and a half years
Posted by R. H. Kanakia on February 20, 2013
I might have fixed it, but I also might not have fixed it.
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Widdershins said
Fixed!!!