How to survive promotion

Alex Marwood “I think we all imagine it’ll be a life of martinis at the Algonquin,” says Al (he doesn’t want me to use his real name, a surprisingly common trait among the writers in this piece) of his first book deal. “Maybe it was naïve to write a book that referenced a number of […]

TOP TEN BEST SHORT STORY MYSTERIES OF ALL TIME

  I cannot think of a quicker way to start an argument than with a “Top Ten” anything list.  And when you dare to do so in a field peppered with friends whose work undoubtedly deserves mention, you’re guaranteed to find yourself crossed off a lot of holiday greeting card lists. Yet, as a former […]

Rosie Was Riveting on the Home Front…and More

by Mary Anna Evans Images of the WWII home front have entered the popular imagination. In our minds’ eyes, ordinary citizens, most of them women, rationed their food, led scrap metal drives, and worked in factories like the biceps-flexing Rosie-the-Riveter in her red-and-white polka dot kerchief. Meanwhile, people they loved, mostly men, fought in the […]