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A Horror Store Ran a Serialized Heist Story This Halloween — and the Whole Thing Is Still Unfolding

If you’ve spent any time in horror fandom, you know the genre has a long, beautiful history of blurring the line between fiction and reality. Blair Witch handed out missing-person...

Life, Unscripted: Seven African Nonfiction Books Worth Reading

Fiction is often where we come to read and enjoy interesting stories about life, its ups and downs, its strange turns and unexpected possibilities. But fiction, even at its most im...

Is Fan Fiction Really the Next Frontier in IP?

Fan fiction is so hot right now. At least, that’s what everyone says.

The Official Launch of Pulp Finction

Over the past year, I’ve been doing something slightly different. I’ve been writing fiction. Not just fiction, but Pulp Finction. The idea behind Pulp Finction is simple: Fun. Fact...

In ‘An American Fiction,’ Ronald Jackson Casts an Imagined Screenplay

Ronald Jackson creates a sort of casting list for an imagined screenplay that titles the exhibition: 'An American Fiction.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

Stories

Life turned into words,...

‘I Don’t Talk to a Single Soul in Real Life About This’

Steamy fan fiction is enjoying a mainstream moment. For some writers, it’s a strange new world.

Instant Reader Gratification: Hear the Biggest Fall Fiction on Audio

Book club picks and new novels from beloved authors: we're stacking our playlist with the ultimate in fall fiction. The post Instant Reader Gratification: Hear the Biggest Fall Fic...

Americana Stories: What our fiction series says about the music and ourselves

When we asked readers for short fiction about Americana in the Spring, we got far more than a set of stories about cowboy hats and lonesome highways, which, to be honest, was a wor...

‘F(r)iction’: A play within a film gets meta and messy

Though not without its flaws, Yuri Takei's film about life imitating art imitating life has an unpredictable energy that yields striking moments.

George Saunders on How Fiction Helps Us Gawk Fondly at Reality

The author discusses his story “Appeasement, Ohio.”

The Happiest Man on Earth

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Finding Truth of Sobriety In Lives of Fictional Characters

CWReport My decision to use novels as the means of describing aspects of my own sobriety is not incidental. Rather, I have chosen to tell my story through other stories because ou...

NICHOLAS DE MARINO: Ufe Uife

My pirated copy of Cortázar’s “Hopscotch” is rundled with e-reader formaging errorors. The sliding li- ne breaks meake Chapter 34 espatially interluse. The blundiest part is the mi...

Want to Understand People Better and Improve Your Life? A New Study Says Read These Kinds of Stories

Two words: Fiction and empathy.

Form Follows Fiction: Six Inquiries

Form Follows Fiction: Six Inquiries brings together six architectural projects that challenge one of architecture's most enduring assumptions: that form follows function. Examining...

A new chapter for MIT Reads

A new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.

Real Life With A Twist!

‘Why Are You So Into This?’

Life before and after ‘Heated Rivalry’ fan fiction.

Your Favorite Short Story

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”  —William Shakespeare * * * We’re all familiar with Shakespeare’s take on the subject of brevity. But in the 21st century, brevity may be the soul of...

рџ“љ Hunger for real stories

The best nonfiction books of the century so far

Secrets of flash fiction revealed as writers gather for insightful Wicklow workshop - ‘It’s about what’s not said’

Myth For Today

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