by Simon Kearns | May 21, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
The novel is a painting. The short story, a sketch. Flash fiction is a photograph, and, as we know, worth a thousand words. Personally, I prefer a word count between 200 and 500. I like flash fiction that plays with form, that turns the reading into a game. In my own...
by Christopher Bundy | May 18, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
For the past couple of years, I’ve been working on the long form and haven’t written much short fiction. But whenever I feel like I need to step away from the novel I’ve been immersed and possibly bogged down in for months and recharge the imagination, I find that...
by Randall DeVallance | May 17, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
I remember reading somewhere, about five years ago, that more than half of all Americans between the ages of twenty and forty reported being in a band. The commentariat felt that this boded ill for the future of the music industry, having more participants than...
by Rebecca Kanner | May 16, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
What I love most about the short story is that you can do things that you can’t in a novel. Especially the short-short. Italo Calvino’s “All At One Point,” is one of my favorites. Who would read a whole novel about the fact that all matter and creation used to...
by Kurt Mueller | May 15, 2012 | Of Literary Interest, Writing
Flash fiction is different. You don’t see it all too much, but when you do it stands out. Rather than a full-length short story that focuses on character and plot and motivation and verisimilitude and all that annoying shit they teach you as highly important in MFA...
