The world has gone digital. It’s a tiresome thing to say, but for an industry like publishing that often hinges on the hope that readers still want to buy physical books, it bears repeating. Sitting on a couch and reading ink on paper now represents a serious outlier in how people consume content, and it’s […]

Writer’s block is a problem we give ourselves. Now, that’s not to say it isn’t real. Anyone who’s ever tried to write consistently has come up against a dry spell, when no ideas are coming, when the ideas we have seem flat, or when we lose faith that we can execute the concepts we actually […]

Few things occupy our political imaginations like the concept of assassination. It exploits our deepest paranoia surrounding stability, nation, and our way of life as we know it: what would happen if our president, or pope, or any other figure we look to for leadership were swiftly and dramatically killed? Or, in the face of […]

What’s a prose poem? It’s a question we were asking fifteen years ago and still wonder about today, even though we all agree the form has been around long enough for some of our favorite writers to master it. Of all literary forms, the prose poem might be the most slippery to define. In fact, […]