B. R. Myers asked an emperor-has-no-clothes question: Instead of rewarding authors by who they are or who they know, why not judge their books by story, language, themes, and meanings?| Jim Nelson
Will Blythe at Esquire asks, “In the golden age of magazines, short stories reigned supreme. Has the digital revolution killed their cultural relevance?” Wearily, I started his essay expecting more of the same, and lo, finding it: Computers and the Internet, he contends, has done much to destroy literary fiction. By this point, I’m surprised […]| Jim Nelson