Why New York’s Literary Crowd is Suddenly in Thrall to Hungarian Fiction
Hari Kunzru sees New York's literary hipsters flocking to a translation that offers some meat and gristle to chew over.
Editors’ Blog
The editors’ blog is a compilation of posts on a wide range of topics from the Identity Theory editors.
Jeffrey Ford: Tribute to a Mentor
Even students who love writing aren't thrilled about first-year composition. If not taught well, the classwork and assignments feel routine, like practice with no chance for game time.
Author Strip Searches: Google Keyword Mashup Haiku
We also get more searches about dating a stripper than we can fathom due to an ancient article by Greg Bruns...I thought, why not make haiku combining these searches?
Why Can’t Amazon and the Indies Just Get Along?
Amazon riled up the book-reading world again, using a price-checking app promotion to declare war on the brick-and-mortars.
On Second Thought, Maybe I Won’t Do NaNoWriMo This Year
Some time tomorrow, which is the first day of November, the second to last month of the year twenty eleven a.d., a Tuesday like so many other Tuesdays that have come before and likely will come again barring any unforeseen incidents...
Stories of Prohibition and the Return of Identity Theory
"Prohibition never works," except as a subject for the latest features on Identity Theory.
Identity Theory Fiction on Million Writers Award "Notable Stories of 2010" List
Congrats to Michelle Lawrence and CJ Hallman for making storySouth's list of Notable Stories of 2010.