The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Each month we feature a young critic we admire and ask them a series of questions about their work and their perspectives on writing today.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
Two coming-of-age novels take us to the middle of nowhere.
The (Re)birth of the Author: derek beaulieu’s Experimental Poetics
beaulieu’s recent work, which encompasses visual poetry, graphic “translations” of other literary works, and conceptual or process-based prose, hardly presents a unified front. It is, however, bound together by its persistence in forcing the use of scare quotes around the word “writing”, in imagining alternative ways of creating and reading literature.
The week’s best online fiction, with recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors.
I found these books and these authors because I needed their voices, although I don’t know that I’ve ever articulated that to myself before. I needed to see women writing other women, women on the page who were strong, thoughtful, harrowingly flawed and courageous in facing and exploring their own selves – if a little batty.
In the first of a trilogy of essays about reading Turkish literature in Istanbul, Helen Stuhr-Rommereim takes Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s novel A MIND AT PEACE as her travel guide through the city.
The week’s best online fiction, with links and recommendations from FictionDaily’s editors
Book Club #4: The Late American Novel
The Full Stop Book Club is a regular feature in which Full Stop editors and guest contributors discuss a book in detail over the course of a week. Our first Book Club selection is The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, edited by Jeff Martin and The Millions‘ C. Max Magee […]