Flashes of War by Katey Schultz (Apprentice House, May 2013) Review by Brett Sholtis Reflections in Broken Glass Describing Flashes of War as a short story collection is kind of like calling Pink Floyd’s The Wall “a bunch of…
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Hannibal and Me by Andreas Kluth
Hannibal and Me: What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach us About Success and Failure by Andreas Kluth (Riverhead Books, January 2013) Review by Clinton Coggins Kluth’s Triumvirate, or Somewhere in the Alps There are 20 Dead War Elephants The…
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Oxford University Press, 2007) Review by Caroline Benner Wolff “What makes a book come to life for you? Robinson Crusoe is in that rare and enviable position of having a to-do list that he…
Walk Away
by Amy Whipple Get up. No, seriously. Close Word (or your stick-it-to-the-man equivalent), press down the top of whatever cute Mac you’ve been toting around, and get up. Walk away. For the last decade I’ve been told that I…
Publishing Solo: Self-Publishing Success Stories
by Beth Steidle Publishing Solo is a new monthly blog series focused on topics relating to self-publishing. Its purpose is to provide information and engage conversation amongst both up-and-coming and established writers as we search for new ways to get…
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Capturing the Seed
by Sarah Menkedick The nuance Of being Is to Capture The Seed Norman Mailer, Death of the Ladies Manwriting is not even about the phallic references, although if you started looking, you could throw together a phallic manwriting tumblr feed…
Publishing Solo: Prying Loose From the Traditional Publishing Model
by Beth Steidle Publishing Solo is a new monthly blog series focused on topics relating to self-publishing. Its purpose is to provide information and engage conversation amongst both up-and-coming and established writers as we search for new ways to get…
Write Me Something
by Emelyn Fuhrman Anyone who shows any sense of what I’ll call “talent” when it comes to writing (but may in fact just be the ability to put words together on a page) has been plagued by this request since…
You Are the Greatest Writer of All Time: A Lesson in Necessary Overconfidence
by Katie Coyle If I have learned one thing from the two-thirds of a graduate degree in fiction writing that I’ve completed so far, it’s that the odds are against my living the exact life I want to live, which…
Writing Beyond the Bubble
by Amanda Giracca I’ve had my doubts about academia for a long time. That is, I’ve had my doubts about academia as a writer, what it would do to my writing, or worse, what it wouldn’t do. I came to…