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We Spoke with Laura van den Berg About 'The Isle of Youth'
This was a great year for the short story. For me, the best part of short stories in 2013 was Laura van den Berg's second collection, The Isle of Youth. I emailed with the author about existential film noir, MacGuffins, and the strangeness of...
Lincoln Michel
12.25.13
Sex
Tamara Faith Berger Writes Coming-of-Age Novels About Porn and Teen Sex
To read Tamara Faith Berger's novels is to acknowledge that she isn't your mother's coming-of-age novelist. Tamara famously cut her literary teeth writing for smut magazines, and her novels are first-person accounts of young girls' sex with pedophiles...
Kaitlin Phillips
12.7.13
The Universal Sadness Issue
Workshop Workshop
If you want to write highbrow fiction today, you’ve probably at least considered getting a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
Ben White
1.2.09