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Calling all writers who are obsessed with plot and obsessives who can write a mean story. We want you!

“The crowd gasped as the Matador vomited kerosene onto the candle, lost his balance and fell into the explosion he’d created.”

Our Field Guide to AWP will provide you with an overview of the more prominent species and phenomena associated with their annual migration.

n case you missed it, Paul Collins was on Weekend All Things Considered this weekend, talking about Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots.

{A’s} profession is a hazardous one—aviator, automobile racing driver, steeple jack, “human fly”—and {B} considers this fact an obstacle to their marriage.

“A Romanian woman in Room 119, whose bed I pushed against the door, said I reminded her of Ted Danson, which she followed with an emphatic “Norm!” I told her Norm wasn’t played by Ted Danson, to which she puttered her lips, rolled over and went back to sleep.”

This Valentine’s Day, psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose, author of Why Do Fools Fall in Love: A Realist’s Guide to Romance is here to help with all your love questions. Dear Ms. Grose, I don’t know if I’m even a Valentine this year…I have recently become sexually involved with a guy who is in a relationship with another [...]

“Sometimes I tell her that she should go into business worrying over children, spouses, the climate, the election, etc. for people who are too busy. Like those ladies who will pray for you, only less optimistic.”

“It’s interesting that love is so often characterised as a soft subject, represented by pinky, fluffy, harmless things. But everyone knows that people regularly kill themselves and each other over it.”

Calling all writers who are obsessed with plot and obsessives who can write a mean story. We want you!

There was a box under the awning. A sort of take-a-penny-leave-a-penny arrangement. In it was a modest pair of black orthopedics. They’d belonged to a clergyman. I took them. Fr. James O’Connor was stitched into the right instep.

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Falling in love is a complicated, messy, mad endeavor…and staying in love is even worse. But don’t despair, psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose, author of Why Do Fools Fall in Love: A Realist’s Guide to Romance is here to help with all your love questions. Dear Anouchka, I recently came across the term “asexual” for people who [...]

Big thanks to contributor Sam Stephenson (and photographer Kate Joyce) who spotted us on 11th and 6th (NYC). Definitely a market we have been trying to tap into.

Calling all writers who are obsessed with plot and obsessives who can write a mean story. We want you!

Plotto, an invention which reduces literature to an exact science.

We kick the new year off in style with one of our all time favorite talks from the workshop, Anthony Doerr’s lecture on Defamiliarization. As those of you who have read Doerr’s work know (and if you haven’t read him, what gives?), he has the unique ability to make the known world seem strange, swatting [...]

In case you dwell on the American side of the Atlantic, let me catch you up on a recent development in international literature—l’autofiction.

As a model and actress, Jennifer Sky has lived under the public eye. (Perhaps you recognize her from here?) Now as a writer, she turns her gaze back on the world of fashion and celebrity and tells us what we haven’t been seeing, in this web extra for our fiftieth issue: Beauty. The Birthmark ENGLAND [...]

“An artist’s creativity sometimes seems to benefit by chance, as for example, when information pertaining exactly to the theme you are secretly already working with is constantly calling out to you. But even that I wouldn’t call chance, because you have already certainly sensitized yourself to the topic.”

This year Tin House Books brings you wistful ruminations on things lost, moving and dark explorations of mental and psychical illness, harrowing tales from asylum seekers, and, of course, art thieves. With so many great things coming out, we could not be more excited for the year ahead.

A challenge for Tin House’s readers: Name five poets and fiction writers whose debut books were published in 2011. You may not open a new tab and google “debut poets and fiction writers.” Ready, set, go…

“But Sabrina wasn’t the perfect wife. She failed all of the tests. The pistol test, for example, where Thomas Day fired pistols at the girl and told her not to move.”

“Having a place to go once a week where people actually cared about writing and would argue with each other about my work helped me improve as a writer.”