First, he built the wall. You can’t never tell with The Don what he might do. He likes to keep his competition guessing, and he thinks everyone who ain’t The Don is […]
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“Stuck dead”; the adventures of Ben, DDD: Developmentally Disabled Detective
Ben was nobody’s fool. I’m a detectuv. I know what that is ‘cause I saw it on TV. I don’t have my own TV but I do have a tape recorder. I’m […]
Jim Booth guest commentary over at Southern Creatives
If you’ve been paying attention you know that our boy Jim Booth recently published a novel. And that it’s really good. And that it presents us with the opportunity to consider fame […]
ArtSunday: Are we seeing more character development in genre fiction?
Not long ago a good friend asked me if I’d take a look at this novel he was working on. He felt it was one of the best things he’d written, but […]
The incompleteness of the soul: an insider's non-review of Completeness of the Soul: The Life and Opinions of Jay Breeze, Rock Star
I’ve been thinking about Completeness of the Soul: The Life and Opinions of Jay Breeze, Rock Star, the third novel from my friend and fellow scrogue Jim Booth. I finished reading it a few […]
Book Review: Completeness of the Soul: The Life and Opinions of Jay Breeze, Rock Star
Inside baseball alert! This is a review of Completeness of the Soul: The Life and Opinions of Jay Breeze, Rock Star (Queen’s Ferry Press) by Jim Booth. Jim is a blogger here […]
Review: Ann Beattie's Mrs. Nixon
When I think of useful literary devices, Pat Nixon is not the first thing that comes to mind. To be honest, I don’t have one single thing that comes to mind when […]
The economics of being-looked-at-ness: S&R interviews Teresa Milbrodt
Teresa Milbrodt is earning a good bit of acclaim lately, and her new short story collection, Bearded Women: Stories, should only amplify her reputation. Fiction Editor Dr. Jim Booth will have a […]
And now, some shameless promotion: Uncanny Valley launches and you need a copy
Some months back I submitted a long “poem” to a new publication called Uncanny Valley. (I quote-mark the word “poem” for reasons that are quickly evident to the reader. It’s part poem, […]
Short fiction satisfies quickly, succinctly
by Zack Witzel Succinct. Compact. Crisp. A successful short story can captivate. It can console. It can discomfort. And all in just one sitting. In short fiction, writers must force themselves to […]
