Archive for February, 2007

“The Ones Who Came After the Ones Who Could Fly”

26 February 2007

…is now live at Web Conjunctions. (Direct link to story page without frames.)

Why We Keep Reading

20 February 2007

The literary magazine in America does awesome and vital work: in a culture dedicated to sweeping any trace of virtue up into the smokestack of big media, the literary magazine makes a home for the Good but Offbeat. Or the Wonderful, Present in Nascent Form. Not to mention the Wild But Undisciplined. Or, most importantly: [...]

Sudden Fiction and the Google

8 February 2007

In the editors’ introduction to New Sudden Fiction, Robert Shapard and James Thomas note that, in the years since their most recent anthology of short-short stories came out, the World Wide Web has changed the way we write, publish, and read fiction, with scores of new online literary journals having started up since then. So [...]