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The Best Writing Tips From William Faulkner
 September 25, 2013 William Faulkner, the Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Sound and the Fury," "As I Lay Dying," and "Light in August," was thankfully outspoken regarding the do's and don'ts of his craft. Though noted for his heavily stylized prose, the writer championed plot over ornate syntax--a strange opinion for a man who once penned a five-word chapter ("My mother is a fish.") According to him, if the story is compelling enough, the style will follow. Continue reading... | GARY SOTO |  | | Why I've Stopped Writing Children's Literature | | At eight years since the publication of the book, I will say that it wasn't a mistake. As an author, I come clean. I made the mother say this--she's my character, right? I have stopped writing children's literature. At my age, the genre is too dangerous. Continue reading... | | | JOEL L. WATTS |  | | Review of Killing Jesus: A History | | In one particular footnote, the authors announce that it was the liberal (yes, they used that word) Sadducees who were wealthy and aligned with Rome. Unfortunately, liberal is not a word many would assign to the Jewish sect only using the Torah and denying the progressive theology of the Pharisees. Continue reading... | | | THOM NICKELS |  | | Philadelphia's Next Poet Laureate | | The applications are in for the City of Philadelphia's next poet laureate. The two-year term of Sonia Sanchez, the city's inaugural poet laureate, concludes at the end of 2013. The appointment of the next poet laureate is being processed, and the choice will be telling. Continue reading... | | | | MARK SIMPSON |  | | Dobbin and Kitty Ride Again | | In Katherine Bucknell's The Animals, a collection of letters between the famous British-born novelist Christopher Isherwood and his lover, the American portrait artist Don Bachardy, love speaks in animal tongues. Cloying Beatrix Potter animal tongues. Continue reading... | | | JULIE R. ENSZER |  | | doris davenport's it's like this | | davenport's work has been neglected in contemporary literary criticism and retrospectives of poetry from the black arts and women's liberation movements, but it is ripe for a revisiting and a reappraisal. Now readers can have an electronic copy of davenport's iconic, handmade it's like this. Continue reading... | | 
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