Author: J.D.

writer and occasional editor.

Carousel #10

I read this really great essay by Benjamin Hale that addresses the real value of literary prizes and what literature lives on years and years later. Basically, there is mediocre literature winning tons of awards that everyone forgets quickly and there is literature that is typically very polarizing and is...

New Additions, Ideas for Collaboration

I’ve made a few minor changes to this blog, mostly just for the sake of convenience: I’ve added a page for the carousels. You see see them all collected there in one place, as well as some of the other popular features I like to write about on here. I’ve...

Carousel #9

One of my old creative writing professors was named a Guggenheim fellow. Pretty fantastic. A friend of mine called my attention to it and we reminisced about our days in fiction workshop at the Biscayne Bay campus and our quick dinners at Taco Bell. Huh. Here’s something new I learned...