The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Companion in Travel: Elizabeth Bishop
The reissue of Elizabeth Bishop’s collected POEMS and PROSE by Farrar, Straus and Giroux at the centennial of her birth is an opportunity for new readers to discover her work. After all, Bishop’s poems hinge on the experience of discovery, a discovery that demands awareness, not preparation.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Fluff Piece: the meandering truth about cats and writers
Colette, Twain, Plath, Sagan, Chandler, Shaw, Bradbury: all cat lovers and writers on the subject of cats. Suffice it to say that writers, second only to spinsters in the throes of dementia, are unequivocally cat people. What, if anything, can be gleaned from this critically neglected relationship?
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Full Stop Recommends (April 27)
A new feature with recommendations for reading, listening and watching from Full Stop editors.
In the last essay in her trilogy about reading Turkish novels in Istanbul, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim writes about the uncanny persistence of cultural stereotypes in Elif Shafak’s THE BASTARD OF ISTANBUL, and the simultaneously predictable and unpredictable experience of travel in a foreign city.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
For and Against Interpretation: Reading A.S. Byatt
“These protagonists (some, not all) end up throwing over a form of knowing characterized by skepticism in favor of an inchoate and yet much more real sense of what is true and meaningful—perhaps the very sense that experiences and words can be true and meaningful.”
In the second essay of her travelogue trilogy about reading Turkish novels in Istanbul, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim discovers black magic and cultural collision in Letife Tekin’s DEAR SHAMELESS DEATH.