The Challenges of Storytelling By: Nev March I’m reading Chandler’s The Long Goodbye, and just like that, a line had me tearing up. What was the line? A cop tells Philip Marlowe that he’s been wasting his time trying to clear the name of his dead friend, Terry Lennox. He says, “And he wasn’t much […]
Author Archives: Andrew Gulli
Excerpt from Kris Lackey’s Butcher Pen Road
Butcher Pen Road by Kris Lackey, published in 2021 The first chapter is excerpted below. Chapter 1 The boy stared at the ground as he walked out of a hackberry stand, toward Bill Maytubby’s black Chickasaw Lighthorse Police cruiser. It was parked at a closed barbed-wire gap gate under a tall homemade ranch gate. Maytubby […]
Top 10 Seismic Twists in Contemporary Fiction
Top 10 Seismic Twists in Contemporary Fiction By: Will Dean Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Atmospheric, poignant, claustrophobic. Lehane develops his characters so beautifully that they feel real. And then he hits you with one of the most satisfying twists ever created. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters A humdinger of a twist (in a novel […]