January 18, 2017
The latest book is out from Pleiades Press! It's a collection of essays by Robert Long Foreman. Buy it here.
Praise for Among Other Things:
“This is a most strange and sensational collection of essays! Robert Long Foreman writes a prose so deceptively clear that the reader has no idea of being led to the still water’s edge, where all is deepening mystery, the harder one looks.”
-Richard ...
January 10, 2017
Since it's time for syllabus creation, I've been thinking about the texts we choose, especially as models for students in creative writing courses. It's always the case that early texts, especially, become for some students a sort of standard to shoot for and a way for them to figure out the aesthetics and position of the instructor. I've kept this in mind for years in what I teach first, trying to pick something that will ...
December 31, 2016
I took over editing the Pleiades blog at the beginning of this year, and I've been proud to be associated with a magazine that foregrounds context in a year when mainstream journalism has largely abandoned any responsibility to the historical and cultural forces that shape the stories it tells. I came into the job with a few ideas about how the blog could contribute to a conversation about literature and context that is ...
December 23, 2016
If you have holiday money to spend, a few of our editors chime in with their favorite books of the year:
Children of the New World, a debut fiction collection by Alexander Weinstein, explores imminent technologies and scenarios in a compassionate and human fashion. In confronting near-future technologies in his stories, Weinstein forces us to contemplate and question the pervasive role of technology in our ...
