Two years ago I wrote about the plot of the American novel and the importance of the inciting incident(s) in The Millions. This post is a rewriting of that essay, charting a certain understanding of the novel's plot from where I left it then to how I conceive of it...
This is a continuation of our posts on teaching revision. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. I'm teaching my revision-only course again this Spring, and though there is some repetition from the...
Hi, Pleiades fans! I'll be editing the website starting today. I first read Pleiades when I was an MFA student at Emerson College. Emerson had a stack of journals to look through, and I remember Pleiades had the best reviews section by far and some great fiction. I...