Naming our characters (or, sometimes, not naming our characters) is a big piece of the literary puzzle for many writers. This is the...

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...

Over the next few days (with a break for the Thanksgiving holiday, naturally) I’ve asked some of my favorite writer friends to help out...

Yeah I was a south bound child Yeah I had a small town life But I turned out alright in the north Livin’ that southern kind of life...

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...