Someone Always Takes Me Home: On Howard Fishman’s “To Anyone Who Ever Asks”

Someone Always Takes Me Home: On Howard Fishman’s “To Anyone Who Ever Asks”

CONNIE CONVERSE is remembered now, if at all, as a rediscovered relic of blog-era music oddity. Like Rodriguez, Donnie and Joe Emerson, Sibylle Baier, Lavender Country, or Converse’s near-contemporary and kindred spirit, Molly Drake, the cracks she slipped through became her calling card. Converse was notable for preserving a greater level of obscurity more extreme […]

Calling on LGUs to offer writing residencies

Calling on LGUs to offer writing residencies

Last week I wrote about the writing workshops going on this summer, with the aim of nurturing and developing the skills of Filipino writers. I mentioned how essential these workshops are not only to teach craft and technique, but also to build and foster a sense of community among people who often feel they are […]

2 Canadians win Lambda Literary Awards for best LGBTQ+ writing

2 Canadians win Lambda Literary Awards for best LGBTQ+ writing

Danny Ramadan, left, and Jeff Ho were among the recipients of the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, which honour the best in LGBTQ+ writing across 25 categories. (Dahlia Katz, Amanda Palmer) Two Canadian writers, Danny Ramadan and Jeff Ho were among the winners of the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards. The prizes, which recognize the best in […]

2 Canadians win Lambda Literary Awards for best LGBTQ+ writing

2 Canadians win Lambda Literary Awards for best LGBTQ+ writing

Danny Ramadan, left, and Jeff Ho were among the recipients of the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards, which honour the best in LGBTQ+ writing across 25 categories. (Dahlia Katz, Amanda Palmer) Two Canadian writers, Danny Ramadan and Jeff Ho were among the winners of the 2023 Lambda Literary Awards. The prizes, which recognize the best in […]

Calling on LGUs to offer writing residencies

Calling on LGUs to offer writing residencies

Last week I wrote about the writing workshops going on this summer, with the aim of nurturing and developing the skills of Filipino writers. I mentioned how essential these workshops are not only to teach craft and technique, but also to build and foster a sense of community among people who often feel they are […]

The Glow

The Glow

The following is from Jessie Gaynor’s debut novel The Glow . Gaynor’s work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The New Yorker, WSJ Magazine, and elsewhere. She is a senior editor at Literary Hub and she has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. She lives […]

Happy Bloomsday! Turn off your wifi and read some Joyce.

Happy Bloomsday! Turn off your wifi and read some Joyce.

Welcome to a new century of Bloomsdays (long may they run). As James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses , turns 101, let us take a moment to honor one of the great works of literature ever produced, set on this day in Dublin, 1904. If you’re reading this, you probably don’t need my particular exegesis on the […]

On the Joy of Literary Acceptance (and the Freedom of Rejection)

On the Joy of Literary Acceptance (and the Freedom of Rejection)

“It fucks you up,” one of my writing students said to me. They meant all the no’s from agents and editors in response to their submitted work. And it can. Zero question. Still, I had to remind them that you can’t personalize it. Rejection in the writing business is inevitable; but I qualified with, “or […]

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