September 18, 2019
From time to time, I have been asked to give craft book recommendations, especially by and/or for writers of color. Having read ~50 craft books in researching my own book, here are ten volumes that I have found useful in thinking about craft, all written by non-white and/or non-Western authors.
Achebe, Chinua. An Image of Africa.
Araki, Hirohiko. Manga in Theory and Practice.
Chinweizu, Onwuchekwa Jemie, and ...
September 09, 2019
Three-Minute Book Review - Emily Webber on The End We Start From, by Megan Hunter (Grove Press, November 2017)
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What snack should you have while reading this book?
Clams, mussels, a scallop (only one and only if you are very lucky), jellyfish, octopus, and tiny sand crabs in a murky broth, seasoned with seaweed (not the exotic kind, but the washed up on a dirty shore kind). The first slurp will ...
August 27, 2019
This semester I am teaching a workshop on "experimental fiction." "Experimental" is a term that gets thrown around a lot with very little meaning or with one specific meaning: outside of a Western psychological realist norm. If everyone were writing with the Western psychological realist norm as their model of "traditional" fiction, then this meaning would make sense. Instead, writers who write with other traditions in mind ...
August 01, 2019
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through / T Fleischmann / June 4, 2019 / Coffee House Press / $16.95 / 168 pp / Paperback / 9781566895477
Reviewed by Katharine Coldiron
What book is this book’s frenemy?
Sissy by Jacob Tobia. Similarly tied up with nonbinary gender identity, but that book is light, youthful, and traditionally narrated. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through has none of these qualities. The ...
