Eric Sheridan WyattJan 25, 20133 minCarver’s Ending of Cathedral: “It’s Really Something”One of the things that I like best about asking fellow writers to write for my blog during these “A Week With…” posts is the variety of...
Eric Sheridan WyattJan 24, 20133 minCarver’s Cathedral: Different Interpretations at Different Stages of LifeHeidi Moore writes wonderfully re-imagined modern stories based on Greek mythology, among other things. She is also a medical doctor and...
Eric Sheridan WyattJan 23, 20134 minNaming the Voice: Prejudice and Change in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”Clifford Garstang wrote two of the best books I read last year (links at the end of this post) and I am happy to host his contribution to...
Eric Sheridan WyattJan 21, 20132 minA Week With Raymond Carver’s CathedralToday marks the start of my third installment of the “A Week With…” series where I invite some of my favorite friends and writers to...
Eric Sheridan WyattDec 18, 20123 minA Week with You Were Perfectly Fine: Dramatic Irony vs. Antithetical DiscourseBelinda Nicoll is the author of the memoir, Out of Sync, as well as a writing and life coach. (You can read an earlier interview I did...
Eric Sheridan WyattDec 17, 20121 minIn case you missed it: A Good Man is Hard to FindEarlier today I kicked off my December guest blog blizzard which will focus on Dorothy Parker’s short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. In...
Eric Sheridan WyattNov 21, 20123 minA Good Man…Beyond the Names We KnowNaming our characters (or, sometimes, not naming our characters) is a big piece of the literary puzzle for many writers. This is the...
Eric Sheridan WyattNov 20, 20124 minA Good Man…Good vs. EvilI met Kelly Fordon while I was pursuing my MFA. She was working on a novel told from the point of view of a U.S. Congressman’s young...
Eric Sheridan WyattNov 19, 20124 minA Good Man…What’s in a Name?As I announced yesterday, I am going to spend this week on the blog sharing some words of literary wisdom from some of my wonderful...
Eric Sheridan WyattOct 1, 20122 minMicro Review – What the Zhang Boys Know, by Clifford GarstangGood fiction transports us into other worlds. Sometimes, this takes the form of the sweeping Civil War epic or the Deep Space...
Eric Sheridan WyattSep 30, 20121 minSeptember Reading ListHere is the run-down of my reading list for September: The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene – Greene’s masterpiece is both hauntingly...
Eric Sheridan WyattSep 7, 20126 minThe Goodbye Child: An Interview With Dominique Traverse LockeI was privileged to hear today’s guest, Dominique Traverse Locke, read from her graduating thesis. I remember very clearly that I was...
Eric Sheridan WyattDec 19, 20111 minSolomon’s Ditch – Short Fiction in Ozone Park JournalOzone Park Journal, the online literary magazine edited and designed by students in the MFA program at Queens College in New York (not...
Eric Sheridan WyattAug 10, 20115 minToo Bad, by Dorothy Parker[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...
Eric Sheridan WyattAug 1, 20115 minShort Fiction Review: Dorothy Parker, Such a Pretty Little Picture[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...
Eric Sheridan WyattJul 27, 20112 minOnline fiction review: In Between by Megann SeptTwelve Stories is an online literary journal that comes out every time the editors agree on twelve stories, unanimously. Sometimes that...
Eric Sheridan WyattJul 20, 20112 minWednesday blog: Online Fiction – The CollagistToday’s fiction feature is the short story, Where Everyone is a Star, by Ashley Farmer, featured in the current online issue of The...
Eric Sheridan WyattJul 13, 20113 minWednesday Online Fiction: And the Rain Fell Through Her FingersThere is some fine fiction (and poetry and non-fiction) at storySouth, and this week I’m highlighting the headliner short fiction story...
Eric Sheridan WyattJul 6, 20111 minOnline Read: The Cure, by Rahul MehtaThere are a number of really good places to find short fiction online, and Fifty-Two Stories is one of them. You should definitely...
Eric Sheridan WyattJun 29, 20111 minWednesday Morning: Online FictionInstead of just posting ONE story to read online (which will likely be what I do, most Wednesday mornings) I thought I would start with...