Seeing Is Believing
We had a sixteen-hour layover in Madrid en route to South Africa, and there were three things I wanted to do before we left: walk around the Plaza Mayor, eat jamón ibérico, and visit the Museo Reina...
View ArticleThe Ploughshares Round-Down: Why Your First Few Pages Mean Everything
Because I love transparency and being generally helpful to writers, or because I am a masochist, I let writers query me by Twitter. It says in my bio that if you can squeeze your pitch into three...
View ArticleRound-Down: Are BOGO Books A Good Thing?
Many businesses have sought creative ways to keep customers incentivized to return because there are so many options for shopping around. Publishers are no different. Harlequin, the famed romance...
View ArticleThe Best Short Story I Read in a Lit Mag This Week: “Men and Women Like Him”...
In “Men and Women Like Him” (Guernica), Amber Sparks explores dark tourism from the perspective of a time traveling tour guide who must ensure that historical tragedies don’t change—even when those...
View ArticleThe Best Essay I Read This Month: “Sign of the Times” by Sara Nović
Disenfranchisement is an unpredictable thing. What the mainstream may assume isolates or weakens a person will sometimes give rise to community and strength, as in Sara Nović’s “Sign of the Times,”...
View Article“Becoming A Parent Made Me A Ruthless Editor of My Own Work”: An Interview...
Elizabeth Onusko’s poems are sharp-edged, sometimes bleak, but also very funny; they feel timeless, but also of the moment in their portrayal of a hopeless modern world—ours—and the struggles and...
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