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Call for Submissions: Beloved Books
They say, those wizened wise and wondrous published authors, that as writers we’ll get nowhere if we don’t read. Luckily, we all read—at least those of us with common sense enough to get somewhere. As...
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The Limits of Motherhood
Room by Emma Donoghue Back Bay Books, $14.99 Jack’s fifth birthday is an extraordinary one. Being five comes with superpowers, and he gets to choose what to wear and when to have his presents. Five is...
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Impermanent Things
Of course a drawback to maintaining a public image while working on your novel is the fact that often you have no idea what you’re saying and therefore often appear to contradict yourself and look...
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Yes, You Can Trust Him
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King Sribner Show, don’t tell. If you are a writer, you have heard this. If you haven’t, it’s time to emerge from whatever basement you haven’t left since...
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An Impractical Solution for an Impractical Era
A not-so-recent article in the New York Times raised the question of the writer’s isolation, going so far as to say we all belong behind bars. That, apparently, is the only environment in which we’re...
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Looking into the Dark
Dukla's Polish cover art Like most readers, I have my momentary fancies. I think it was in 2006 that I sought everything labeled magical realism, which, in my collegiate ineptitude, was relegated to...
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The Terrible Twenties
When I announced, on Twitter, that I was only on page twelve of Leigh Stein’s The Fallback Plan and already going through withdrawal, I expected Stein, like most tweeting authors, to ignore me, or at...
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On Love for Love’s Sake
A few weeks ago, Paper Darts Editorial Director and Minneapolis journalist Courtney Algeo wanted to know about book reviewing—specifically, its place in today’s literary dialogue. In addition to...
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Destroying False Gods: An Interview with Squawk Back Editor in Chief Zak Block
Since becoming Managing Editor of Xenith three years ago, I’ve kept a much tighter grip on the publishing industry’s pulse. What’s continuously startling is how much innovation and rejuvenation there...
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Micro Reviews: Bellow, Franzen, Kunzru
The question comes in various forms. What do you read for fun? What do you read when you can’t read anything else? What do you read when you hate yourself and can’t look fiction in the eye? The answer,...
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