Frontlist submissions
Anyone can submit fiction to The Frontlist. Highly-ranked stories are read by an editor or agent. The system is like Zoetrope’s, except Frontlist is mostly genre so far.
Anyone can submit fiction to The Frontlist. Highly-ranked stories are read by an editor or agent. The system is like Zoetrope’s, except Frontlist is mostly genre so far.
“Hello, Grisham — So Long, Hemingway?” Libraries cull their stacks, and I’m staying out of it this time; angry librarians scare me. (See also.)
My year-end books piece for Newsday ran over the weekend. Supplementing it here, in 2007, seems fitting, since two of the novels I admired — Calvin Baker’s Dominion and Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt — have inspired me to set up a public discussion between the authors this spring. The topic will be names/branding and freedom in the market . . .
I finally know why The Guardian deleted Donna Tartt’s “The Ambush” from its website. Tin House reprinted the story, and it’s collected in BASS 2006.
Hey, look at this. Gessen examines the fiction of Martin Amis — circa Yellow Dog. Dear Nation: encore, please? (Thanks, Christian.)