Sunday Stories: Summertime

Summertime by Mairead Case I know Max’s face better than anybody else’s face. We sat together during freshman year chem and junior year English, senior year English, the taco drive thru and the taco drive thru and the taco drive thru. That one time he took too many mushrooms and locked himself in the bathroom, started crying. It was the summer after graduation and we were both ready not to be eighteen. We both thought the same shit sucked. We […]

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Fiction Returns to The Atlantic

Over at The Faster Times, Lincoln Michel reports the good news: The Atlantic has a long  history of publishing high quality fiction dating all the way back to its launch in 1857. It wasn’t so long ago that it was The Atlantic, New Yorker and Harper’s that were the big three. But five years ago The Atlantic pulled fiction from its subscriber pages, only publishing short stories in a special newsstand issue each summer. However, The Atlantic is bringing short fiction back […]

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Bites: Fiction v. Non-Fiction, Poe’s Funeral, Proust’s Questions, Lev Grossman on being a critic, Wild Things, Hornby’s Education, Nick Cave & PJ Harvey, and more

Jim Shepard for Electric Literature on the subject of fiction based on non-fiction: “We need to bear in mind, as we’ve been told many times, that we’re working from, but not necessarily about, our lives.” Lit. Edgar Allen Poe gets a real funeral. (Thanks, The Rumpus) On Vanity Fair’s website, take Proust’s Questionnaire and find out which celebrities you most resemble. Lev Grossman guest-posts for and on the National Book Critics Circle blog. Film, a Quick Weekend Roundup What will […]

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