Emmett Stinson

In the absence of a thriving avant-garde, Dominic Amerena’s I Want Everything adds to the local tradition of imagined alternative histories.

With The Saturday Paper’s controversial experiment with pseudonymous book reviews coming to an end, what have we learned?

Early in 2010, Ted Genoways, editor of respected US journal, Virginia Quarterly Review, published an article entitled ‘The Death of Fiction?’, which discussed the perilous circumstances of US literary journals, and sought to blame both their demise and the decreasing relevance of fiction on the fact that ‘most American writers seem to have forgotten how […]

Her fist plunged into the socket of his right eye. ‘What the fuck!’ Steve yelled, jolted awake by the punch. His outrage woke Anna, too, who asked, ‘What happened? What’s wrong?’ as Steve, barely containing himself, said, ‘You punched me, that’s what’s wrong, you punched me in your sleep,’ which Anna immediately denied, saying, ‘No, […]