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Horror and ambiguity! 13 Aug 2013 | 11:23 pm
Matt Cheney perfectly describes the reason I love good horror fiction: The central pleasure of the sort of horror fiction that I most enjoy results from ambiguity. Such stories exist on at least two ...
Untitled 23 Jul 2013 | 07:41 pm
Missing Paris already...
Back from Europe, blah blah blah 21 Jul 2013 | 11:46 pm
I'm back from my second MFA residency at the NYU MFA in Paris program, and it was awesome, to say the least, and not just because Paris in July is a huge playground. My advisor for this upcoming seme...
Untitled 21 Jul 2013 | 07:21 pm
I'm Richard and I'm a writer. My short stories have appeared in a bunch of places, including one time right next to Kelly Link in the table of contents of a magazine, which basically made my life comp...
And in honor of Richard Matheson (RIP)... 10 Jul 2013 | 05:18 am
... Benjamin Percy says it best: Dostoyevsky once said, “We all come out from Gogol's ‘Overcoat,’” and these days, so many of us have crept out of Matheson’s graveyard. Stephen King, Peter Straub, De...
A review, etc 10 Jul 2013 | 05:11 am
A belated announcement, belated because I've been in Paris doing my second residency as part of NYU's MFA program: My review of Yoon Ha Lee's debut collection, Conservation of Shadows, has been posted...
The importance of storytelling 29 May 2013 | 10:16 pm
From this feature on Jeffrey Eugenides: “We had a lot of conversations about whether or not the novel is dead,” he says, and both of them [Eugenides and Jonathan Franzen] came to an astounding discove...
Thoughts on some John Cheever stories 23 May 2013 | 12:02 am
“Goodbye, My Brother,” the first story in The Stories of John Cheever, is—among other things—an exercise in the use of POV, and the possibilities inherent to the use of an unreliable narrator. After s...
SUDDENLY, A KNOCK ON THE DOOR (by Etgar Keret) 20 May 2013 | 11:09 pm
Etgar Keret writes in a deceptively casual style, conversational at times, even, and his very short stories can seem airy until suddenly they punch you in the face with a raw emotion, a harsh politica...
in which I review THE GREAT GATSBY 8 May 2013 | 09:25 pm
From the beginning of my review of The Great Gatsby for Slant Magazine: From Willy Loman and his diamonds in Death of a Salesman to the Joads and their famous westbound road trip in The Grapes of Wrat...
