Young Critics: Michele Filgate
Some of the best books that have ever been written are being edited or published as I type this. There are plenty of writers willing to take risks–to write books that speak to their own emotional truths. The future classics are being conceived of or worked on or published every year.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Whether we’re aware of it or not, theory taught us to read with incisive, thoroughgoing skepticism and reflexivity. It made us more rigorous, not less.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Creativity of mind is what imbues literacy with value and life. As such, our society needs nothing more than the imagining inspired by children’s writers such as E. Nesbit, Alison Uttley, and so many other half-forgotten names. To rediscover old books is to explore overgrown paths and rebuild toppled towers.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Music has the ability to tell stories just as well as texts can.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Leslie Knope’s Politics of the Public
Though NBC’s PARKS AND RECREATION is a show about political values and public awareness, it’s able to tackle this conversation through the lens of comedy, drawing attention to the fact that sincerity itself is often a more complicated – and much funnier – issue than we’d like to admit.