I found a great online article by Bruce Holland Rogers called “What Is Magical Realism, Really?” What Magic Realism Is Not In the piece, he gives an example of how those working in trade magazines misuse the category name: If a magazine editor these days asks for contributions that are magical realism, what she’s really […]
Category: writer’s life
On Saturday, I attended most of a day of the three-day Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference at the L.A. Convention Center. I reconfirmed my belief that it is essential to write what you are passionate about. Though the bookfair was earsplittingly loud, overwhelmingly large, and (at least to my mind) chaotically organized, […]