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Ludic Writing is an offshoot of the Session Report series, which explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each…

Ludic Writing is an offshoot of the Session Report series, which explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each…

How To Write To Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Mariner Books, 2018 288 pages – Amazon   Until recently I worked at a coffee shop near MIT. It…

The Unmapped Country: Stories and Fragments by Ann Quin And Other Stories, January 2018 178 pages – Amazon   A couple of weeks ago, I went to see a mediocre…

Traces of a Fifth Column by Marco Maisto Inlandia Books, May 2017 110 pages – Amazon   Dissolving artifacts spin throughout Marco Maisto’s enigmatic debut collection, circling like the faded…

Geohell: Imagining History in the Contemporary World by Matthew Kenner 549 pages – Amazon   With over a billion people on the planet living in extreme poverty, billions more struggling…

Lacking Character by Curtis White Melville House, March 2018 176 pages / Amazon, Melville House   Curtis White is a master of the digressive, philosophical novel. His new work Lacking…

So Much Blue by Percival Everett Graywolf Press, June 2017 256 pages / Graywolf Press, Amazon     So Much Blue by Percival Everett, is a novel in a clear-eyed modern…

Featured Image: Barbara Loden The film Wanda, by Barbara Loden, was playing in select theaters in 1970 while women all over the country faced the dread of unwanted pregnancy by impaling their…

Investigations of a Dog and Other Creatures by Franz Kafka Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann New Directions, 2017 244 pages / Amazon   The back cover of Investigations…

Session Report is a monthly series that explores the intersection of narrative and broader themes of game design by focusing on a specific tabletop game each month. This month’s game…

Rarely does a film come along that polarizes audiences immediately and intensely. But Mother! most certainly accomplishes that. The Jennifer Lawrence starring film has been labeled “divisive,” which puts it…

Heart Berries by Terese M. Mailhot Counterpoint Press, February 2018 160 pages / Amazon     “People come along and they grace your life, and they make it extraordinary.”—Terese Mailhot…

A dusty, barren lunar surface. Light synths seem to struggle to find a melody as a fat, squat man in a dazzling white tuxedo—complete with top-hat—flips, bounds, and rolls in…