Sometimes, you’re midway through a story and you suddenly realize what you need to change to make it work. A later development requires some earlier foreshadowing, or you need to remove a detail so your new path makes sense. It’s a lightbulb moment, and often the point where a story really comes together for many
If genre fiction is Die Hard, The Notebook, and The Hangover – stuff you watch to relax and eat popcorn to – literary fiction is the opposite. It’s the Citizen Kane, The Pianist, the There Will Be Blood of the literary world – books you wouldn’t necessarily call a ‘good time’ but that are artistic,
When it comes to Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘inimitable’ is the first word that comes to mind. Multi-time winner of the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and World Fantasy Award, and author of The Earthsea Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness, and The Word for World Is Forest, her novels are genre-busting spectacles and
Is there such a thing as actual nonfiction? In short, yes, but it almost always comes in the form of graphs, bone-dry reports, and scientific studies where the authors deliberately fight against a sense of narrative in favor of pure fact. Everything else – diaries, memoirs, historical writing – has a dash of narrative in
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