The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Forbidding Zones: Hersey’s Hiroshima and Vollmann’s Fukishima
The differences in tact and tone of the pieces reflect the passage of time, and unfortunately, that the hour is already terribly late. We are amidst the peril of atomic energy, and no matter how urgent the reporting, no matter how dire the warnings, we, like the journalists, are bound to wander through its devastation.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Three Ways to Respond to Your Bully: The Failings of the Modern University
Though strange bedfellows, these books can go some distance in repairing the fractured relationship between the university and society at large.
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.