Amitava’s short-short story
James Wood chooses my friend Amitava Kumar’s Postmortem as a 3-Minute Fiction finalist at NPR.
James Wood chooses my friend Amitava Kumar’s Postmortem as a 3-Minute Fiction finalist at NPR.
For the last month of his life, Marcel Proust subsisted entirely on beer, according to his housekeeper. (Via.)
Over the years I’ve developed a bad habit of going over sentences again and again in my fiction because they don’t quite sound right. By that I mean that the rhythm is off or the vowel sounds clash or an adjective is too bland or, worse, too “creative” in some overcomplicated or cutesy way that distracts from the flow of . . .
FCC head supports Net Neutrality, and contemplates rules to ensure it. Opposition lessens, for now.
The Rumpus talks with Donald Ray Pollock, former paper mill worker, and author of Knockemstiff.