Is This Thing On? VIDA’s Count and the AWP Aftermath 12 Mar 2013 | 08:06 pm

Know any writers? Facebook and Twitter much? If so, you know that last week VIDA announced its 2012 Count. For three years, VIDA’s pie charts have shown in stark relief the gender bias at several top-...

Brent Hendricks: The TNB Self-Interview 12 Mar 2013 | 04:24 pm

Brent Hendricks does the TNB Self-Interview.

Swan Diving 12 Mar 2013 | 08:24 am

"Swan diving was easier. I imagined myself graceful in that arch."

Six-Question Sex Interview with Gina Frangello 12 Mar 2013 | 04:58 am

Gina Frangello is the author of the novel My Sister’s Continent and the story collection Slut Lullabies. She is one of the most bold, fearless, unhindered writers I’ve ever read. After reading the man...

Aunt Steve, by Elizabeth Trundle 12 Mar 2013 | 04:10 am

Stevie Mackenzie’s brother broke up the family. He emailed her a few days after Thanksgiving to announce it. He would no longer be coming home for Christmas. John Armstrong—the family called him Army—...

Review of This Close, by Jessica Francis Kane 12 Mar 2013 | 02:12 am

Short story collections are often titled after one of the collected stories.  Jessica Francis Kane’s new collection “THIS CLOSE,” following her 2010 novel, The Report, doesn’t share a title with any o...

Hollywood Hills, CA — 10:44 a.m. 12 Mar 2013 | 12:19 am

Idiomatic Expressions Used to Describe Turning 30 11 Mar 2013 | 08:08 pm

These [vegetables] practically [steam] themselves. You’ll never [shop at the American Eagle] in this town again. We’ll always have [toddlers around]. When you [can safely drive home at 11 p.m. on a Fr...

Shreveport 11 Mar 2013 | 12:11 am

A man with a creepy Will Rogers smile and eyes like a snake ready to eat the eggs from the nest of some absent mother duck stared at me from the opposite bank of seats. His hair could have been finger...

Excerpt from A Long Day at the End of the World, by Brent Hendricks 9 Mar 2013 | 10:59 pm

Because a picture is a sort of dream, the big moon circles the whirling earth that follows our little burning star, and my father hasn’t entered the third state. He’s not stretched out here in the bac...