Close Encounters
Foxes, llamas, and one portentous bobcat remind the author of Ninetails: Nine Tales that the artistic process can’t be planned or tamed—and that perhaps its wildness is one of the reasons we write.
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Foxes, llamas, and one portentous bobcat remind the author of Ninetails: Nine Tales that the artistic process can’t be planned or tamed—and that perhaps its wildness is one of the reasons we write.
“If someone else could do it better, don’t write it.” —Anne Fadiman, author of Frog: And Other Essays
An introduction to three new anthologies, including What My Father and I Don’t Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence and Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection.
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat leverages his intrusive thoughts from pet sitting for fiction.
“There’s never a lack of inspiration.” —Morgan Christie, author of These Bodies
“Everything in my life is material.” —Ellen Cooney, author of One Night Two Souls Went Walking