Dead End Follies’ Top 10 Literary Villains

from Dead End Follies Top 10 Best Literary Villains 1-Palmer Eldritch from Philip K. Dick’s Three Stigmatas Of Palmer Eldritch: The achievement of Palmer Eldritch as a villain is to get under your skin and make you do nightmares, even if the story around him is...

Frey Wears Short Shorts

from NPR ‘Hint Fiction’ Celebrates The (Extremely) Short Story NPR STAFF Can you tell a whole story in 25 words or fewer? Inspired by the six-word novel attributed to Ernest Hemingway — “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” — Robert Swartwood has...

Bum’s Rush

from MEDIAITE Did NY Mag Rush Their James Frey Feature Online Only After Learning OfWSJ Scoop? by Hillary Busis | 1:54 pm, November 12th, 2010 Readers of both NYMag.com and the Wall Street Journal’s website may have noticed that in the wee small hours of the morning,...

WSJ: James Frey’s Next Act

from The Wall Street Journal James Frey’s Next Act Book series, movie deals, disgruntled writers By KATHERINE ROSMAN And LAUREN A. E. SCHUKER For James Frey, success and controversy are a package deal. His 2003 debut book, “A Million Little Pieces,”...

The Automatypewriter

from Up, Not North A new way to interact with fiction October 29th, 2010 Introducing the Automatypewriter, a new way to experience interactive fiction! It’s still a little rough around the edges (in particular, you can see that the spacebar sticks a little, and the...