Poets & Writers – September 2019

TRENDS 2008, the chain operated 726 stores nationwide—and seen its stock price plummet from $30 a share in 2006 to just $4 a sha ...

Literary MagNet “When it comes to journals, it’s really all about the editors,” Cohen says. “I can’t overstate the importance of ...

TRENDS some you’re not,” Preston says. “With Amazon, they have algorithms. They’ll only show you the books they think you want t ...

Muñoz Directs Arizona MFA pa tr i^ h ad ad 21 POETS & WRITERS TRENDS Q & A This fall Manuel Muñoz will become the new di ...

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the literary life 23 POETS & WRITERS^ Suggested Reading: Elements of Fiction (Grove Press, September) by Walter Mosley In hi ...

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I F I conducted a brutal assessment of my reading habits—something I am not eager to do—the results would show that I spend an a ...

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the literary life MANUALS FOR LIVING In a required literature course, one of Stoner’s professors reads a Shake- spearean sonnet, ...

book; one can only reread it.” Literary fiction, by definition, must exhibit the depth to sustain multiple readings. My initial, ...

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E ARLIER this year novelists Christina Baker Kline and Lisa Gornick had a conversation at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New Yo ...

the literary life HISTORICAL FICTION SEPT OCT 2019 32 strand, which starts in 1914, that is incontrovertibly “historical.” Kline ...

33 POETS & WRITERS^ of society, whose stories have been un- noticed or obscured—and a lot of those people are women. Through ...

before #MeToo? How did a woman born at the tail end of the Gilded Age experience her parents’ servitude, the Depression, and the ...

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Now for a trickier question: How indebted do you feel in your fiction to stick to the historical record—to what actually happene ...

the literary life HISTORICAL FICTION illuminates the history of history, which is both an empirical and inter- pretive enterpris ...