I first read a Pinckney Benedict story before I realized who Pinckney was, and before I realized I would be studying in a program where...

When I started this new blog, I thought I knew what I wanted to do: Provide readers and writers of fine fiction a place to periodically...

We’ve been given a finite number of breaths to breathe, and a finite number of talents to employ, and it seems to me the conundrum of...

I realized today, as I was addressing several details related to our upcoming move that it will be almost 12 years to the day since we...

I just returned from the May Residency week at Queens University of Charlotte. We had another amazing week of reading, writing, laughing,...

Ha! That is the hope of every fiction writer, I think…to find that silver lining of a new story hidden in every change, lurking around...

Let’s start off with the obvious: the iPad isn’t the right fit for everyone. It isn’t a full blown computer and it isn’t a production...

…because I haven’t written any reviews or critiques of the stuff I’ve been reading… So, in the meantime, let me ruminate about a couple...

I’ve been away from my home base for a couple of weeks now and I’ve not done much in the way of preparing a blog post. I’ve been reading...

This story kicks off American Short Fiction’s winter 2009 issue with a bang. Or a thwack. Or…some other word that deftly uses...

One of the original goals of starting this new blog was to read and review (and thereby, promote) short fiction appearing in American...

I’ll start with a personal aside: During the January residency, I shared the first chapter of my novel in progress with my small reading...

[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Hello friends, I’ve finished an updated draft of a story called, Solomon’s Ditch. I need some beta readers, and you can help. (The link...

Where I’m Calling From, originally appeared in The New Yorker and was later included in two of author Raymond Carver’s short story...

If you’ve read an American Fiction anthology printed in the last thirty years or so, you’ve likely read one of two stories by Flannery...

News has come in today that author J.D. Salinger–famous for both his trademark character of Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye...

The short story has long been a form with two primary purposes: Some stories are better told in a shorter format. The immediacy and punch...

A year ago, I resurrected my old brand, Ernst Wiley Publications, in order to publish and promote a book about the political and economic...