- “The Village with All of the Boyfriends” by Zachary Doss
- “The Murder Sounds” by Amy Silverberg
- “How to Spend Your Time Before the Renegade Planet Makes It All Go Dark” by Justin Lawrence Daugherty
- “Grief as Mythos” by Brandon Taylor
- “Let’s Not Begin” by Maggie Smith
- “How the End Begins” by Cynthia Cruz
- “Ten Step Tulpamancy” by Kia Groom
- “Beach City” by Jaquira Díaz
- The Best Small Fictions 2015, edited by Robert Olen Butler
- The Bad Cover Letter Generator, built by Kendra Fortmeyer, which generates extremely professional cover letters for the aspiring writer (give it a whirl!)
Category: recommended reading
Recommended Reading #3
- A Field Guide to Surreal Botany, edited by Janet Chui and Jason Erik
- “Glass Box” by Sandra Simonds
- “The Math Is Bad” by Casey Hannan
- On the Edges of Vision by Helen McClory
- “Smooth Body, Smooth Mind” by Paul Rusconi
- “Psychic in Reykjavik” by Fatima Bhutto
- “Anthropogenesis, or: How to Make a Family” by Laura van den Berg
- “A Hierarchy of Friends and Lovers” by Amanda Miska
- “Why I Didn’t Write Back” by Diana Spechler
- “The Agony of Community: an Introverted Writer’s Lament” by Meghan Tifft
- Read the World, a blog that categorizes literature by place and encourages more worldly reading
Recommended Reading #2
- Goddessmode, a small anthology of videogame writing by women and non-binary writers
- Corium Magazine, Issue 20
- “The Grifted” by Jac Jemc
- “There Is No Map for Grief: On the Work of Art” by Lidia Yuknavitch
- “Aubade with a Broken Neck” by Traci Brimhall
- “What Do We Have in Our Pockets?” by Etgar Keret
- “Beginnings: New York” by Ocean Vuong
- “Secretaries in Heaven” by Stephanie Lenox
- “In Favor of Defenestrating Children” by Saara Myrene Raappana
- The Blunt Instrument, an advice column for writers by Elisa Gabbert
Recommended Reading #1
I’ve decided to retire the Carousels on this blog and turn it into a regular Recommended Reading feature instead. These lists will include anything noteworthy I’ve been reading lately that I want to share with all of you. There’s just so much out there now, and sometimes it’s hard and very time-consuming to find the real gems. If you have anything you’d like to share yourself, you can always send me an email. I’m always looking.
So it begins:
- Quaint Magazine, Issue 4
- “The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild,” Part 1 by Cat Valente (and Part 2)
- “Logic” by Richard Siken
- “Teach Me Something” by Amy Silverberg
- “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” by Ocean Vuong
- “Eating the Bible” by Robert Vivian
- “This Was Ugly” by Lauren Gordon
- “Tonight, in Oakland” by Danez Smith