A critical view of the popular “nonfiction” essay type, magazines and places where it appears, and the book version known as the long walk.
The True Story
Author: Robert Boucheron
Robert Boucheron is an architect and freelance writer in Charlottesville, Virginia. His short stories and essays on literature and architecture have appeared in the Alabama Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Concrete Desert Review, Fiction International, Louisville Review, and Saturday Evening Post. His flash fiction appears in online magazines.
Flash Fiction
What is flash fiction? A brief history and guide to current trends.
Sex, Fascism, and So Forth
A book review of Master Lovers from the small press Outpost 19 in San Francisco.
Profiles in Honesty
A book review of Writers and Missionaries, by Adam Shatz.
Stories from the Darp
A review of Pinching Zwieback, stories by Mitchell Toews.
The Corner Store
A local landmark, a collection of antique merchandising gear, and what Tuffer Gibson calls his baby, that’s the Corner Store.
Jean Paul
One of literature’s great eccentrics, Jean Paul was popular in Germany in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
The Lang Fairy Books
A brief overview of the famous series edited by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, and his wife Nora, who did much of the rewriting.