Cynan Jones on Nature and Nonlinear Love
This week’s story is about a couple that fears that a fierce storm is going to bring a tree down on the power lines near their cabin in the countryside, potentially endangering them and their young daughter. When did this scenario first come to you? Although readers will receive this story very much through the […]
An (Ongoing) Taxonomy of the Sad Rich Girls of Literature
(Spoilers follow.) Some readers love thrillers, others love mysteries—my idea of a page-turner is a Sad Rich Girl novel. Show me a discontented daughter of privilege who wiles away her days agonizing over how dull life is, complaining about nepobaby accusations, or—most deliciously—wishing she were poor so there was some damn romance in her life, […]