Kirsten Valdez Quade Photo: Holly Andres Kirstin Valdez Quade did not initially envision her 2009 short story The Five Wounds as a full-length novel. But that’s what it became. “My now-editor emailed after the story came out and asked if I had considered turning it into a novel,” says Quade. “I wrote back very nicely, […]
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Let’s begin this week with a nice straightforward poetry question. Which poet gave us the quotation, ‘dulce et decorum est pro patria mori’? The war poet Wilfred Owen has made these words resonate with new meaning in the last century or so, but we owe the line to a […]
Joseph Moldover is a writer and clinical psychologist who lives and works in Massachusetts. His debut novel, Every Moment After , was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , Stonecoast Review , MonkeyBicycle , One Teen Story , Typehouse , The MacGuffin , and elsewhere. […]
As Mike Fu’s novel Masquerade progresses, his protagonist Meadow Liu’s day-to-day becomes increasingly haunted. While digging around a friend’s sublet for something, he finds a book entitled The Masquerade from early 1930s Shanghai written by a man whose Chinese name is eerily similar to Meadow’s (Liu Tian). As the Fu’s novel continues, the line blurs […]
