Last year I wrote a story about the secret history of Cracker Barrel, Sodom and Gomorrah, and, possibly, the Illuminati. I did this for the Significant Objects project, which invites writers to infuse an otherwise worthless object with value through fiction. In so doing, I raised a little (very little) bit of money for Girls Write Now. Obviously any artificially . . .
Yes, says James Hynes, Robert Stone belongs to the “great tradition of semi-mad, oracular American writers railing [about sin], but even his grimmest books are infused with mordant wit.”
“What you can finally not say ‘no’ to”: Mark Vernon, spurred by reading of Iain McGilchrist, contemplates the essentially negative exchange between the hemispheres of the brain.
Discover Nikkei runs an excerpt from Marie Mockett’s “Comportment Compartment,” which is forthcoming in The Asian American Literary Review.