To be clear: I’m not saying MFAs made all novels terrible or that all contemporary writing sucks. A writer isn’t deterministically destined to produce defensive prose if they go through the MFA process. Not all writers who’ve sat in a workshop are “wor…
“Written by someone who doesn’t care much for plot”
Anjali Joseph (Literary Activism, 11/2021), “Madame Bovary and the Impossibility of Re-reading”: “In a way it’s not a novel about human characters at all: it’s a novel of objects and insects and sunlight and birds, of stains, or habit and repetition. A…
Harry Potter RPG ‘Accidentally’ Added Popular Hentai Porn Expression
Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, a card-based RPG for mobile devices and PC that’s only available in Eastern countries for now, is really popular in China. However, the game is currently attracting attention not for its incredibly successful launch, but f…
Foody cooks up marketplace for culinary creators
Husband-and-wife co-founders Daniel and Brenna Stitzel have developed a way for foodies to monetize their culinary creations.
祝・ラファティ・ルネサンス！ ラファティ・ラブ・エッセイ再録①――伴名練「幻の短篇集」｜Hayakawa Books & Magazines（β）
待望のＲ・Ａ・ラファティベスト短篇集《ラファティ・ベスト・コレクション》第一巻の『町かどの穴』が刊行されました。ラファティを愛するラファティアンなあなたも、ラファティのことよく知らないけどなんだかおもしろそう！ なあなたも、どなたでも手に取りやすい短篇集になっております。 ここではＳＦマガジン2021…
作家・樋口有介氏ご逝去｜
2021年10月23日、作家・樋口有介氏がご自宅にて逝去されました。代表作は『ぼくと、ぼくらの夏』『風少女』などの青春ミステリ、『彼女はたぶん魔法を使う』にはじまる〈柚木草平シリーズ〉などがあります。 近年は沖縄に移住し、精力的に執筆をこなしていました。コロナ禍でここ最近はお伺いすることはできませんでした…
True Philippine Ghost Stories
Romano Santos (Vice, 10/27/2021), “Remembering the Thrill of Reading ‘True Philippine Ghost Stories'”: “‘Very chilling stories, indeed. I can’t imagine ever seeing someone’s doppelgänger. But for sure, I am not looking forward to seeing mine,’ Mendoza …
Atwood & Chee & Lerner & Porter & Waits & More
Inque Magazine will launch next month. It will be a printed literary magazine with a limited run of 6000 copies issued once a year for 10 years. It will feature no advertising, no web-equivalent, and will not be reprinted. In addition to a wonderful li…
What I learned about my writing by seeing only the punctuation
Just the Punctuation is an online tool that strips everything except punctuation from plain text and arranges the result.
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Abdulrazak Gurnah
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a novelist from Zanzibar who lives in Brighton, England. He is best known for his novel Paradise, but has published several novels. Anders Olsson, chairman of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel committee has written an essay about Gurnah,…