Lit Drift: Storytelling in the 21st Century

Free Book Friday: Nylund, the Sarcographer by Joyelle McSweeney

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:54:50 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Abe [...]

From One Young Writer to Another: More Than Just A Movie

Andrew Boryga — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:47:15 +0000

There are a lot of ways in which college students spend their free time. Personally, I watch films. There’s nothing better than a good flick on a boring day. Last year, I probably rented out half the selection in the library and paid a ton of late fees (and accordingly got a Netflix account this [...]

Free Book Friday: Attempts at a Life by Danielle Dutton

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:04:37 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner DT for [...]

When Your Friends Succeed: Fending Off The Green Eyed Monster

Jessica Digiacinto — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:03:34 +0000

Jealousy scares me. It scares me in relationships, and it certainly scares me when it’s connected to my career. It’s a sneaky emotion; silently climbing into my chest and then sticking it’s claws in when I least expect it. I’ll be walking along, enjoying my goodness and my dedicated moral compass, when all of sudden [...]

Free Book Friday: “The Puppet” by Reif Larsen

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:00:18 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Kaylah for getting [...]

This Week: Deliciously Awful Literary Mashups, Introducing the Facebook Novel & Quasimodo Was Real (Kind of)

JK Evanczuk — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:32:30 +0000

Fall of the House of Usher, feat. Lil John, Kafka on the Jersey Shore, and other deliciously awful literary mashups. A wonderful essay over at The Millions on where we write and on making do with what you’ve got. Introducing the Facebook novel. Here’s John Waters’ secret to reading a lot. What reading challenging books does to your brain. [...]

Free Book Friday: Steampunk, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:02:56 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner Rachel for getting free [...]

When Poetic Justice Meets Life

Tanya Paperny — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:00:14 +0000

Russia is on fire. The unprecedented heat wave in much of the Northern Hemisphere means that temperatures in and around Moscow this summer have reached record highs. On top of that, much of the Russian lands are covered in peat (due to natural vegetation but also bad Soviet agricultural practices) which is now lighting on [...]

Free Book Friday: The Dog Said Bow-Wow and Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures by Michael Swanwick

JK Evanczuk — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:43:08 +0000

Welcome to this week’s Free Book Friday, wherein we give you the best titles in indie publishing for the low low price of nothing. Congrats to last week’s winner ARP for getting free copies [...]

Literature Is Illmatic

Morgan von Ancken — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:01:07 +0000

I don’t know though. I mean, what if you brought this exercise to bear on something other than fragments of Macbeth? How about, oh, Nas’s seminal rap album Illmatic (1994). Would it past the test? Is it “literature”?