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“My parents were killed when I was nineteen”
“My parents were killed when I was nineteen. The propane tank on the trailer home somehow exploded, chewed them up in a bright blue flame. ‘Poor girl,’ people said. I was sad, but everyone else seemed...
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Chuck Palahniuk on death, grief, and telemarketing
Photo © Shawn Grant “As I wrote the book I was caring for my mother who was dying of lung cancer. My father was dead. And I needed a story that would express my overwhelming grief. No one wants to...
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“The first film I ever saw was Dr. Zhivago…”
“… I was in fifth grade, and my mother took my me to the movies, something she never did back then. She believed in books, not theaters. But she said it would be good for me to understand communism,...
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Anything for a Laff: 2 questions for Marjorie Manwaring
Marjorie Manwaring is the author of “Snow Day,” “Where Sadness Comes From,” and “Musée Mécanique,” about the last of which: Your poem “Musée Mécanique” captures the sense of wonderment and playfulness...
View ArticleWhen All the World Is Old: the new collection from John Rybicki
We’ve published more poems by John Rybicki than by anyone else. He writes with both power and amazing versatility, drawing again and again on his own experience, from the joyous to the terrible, and...
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Quickie Q & A with failbetter Author Grant Ginder
We try to be a full service journal over here at failbetter, anticipating your wants and needs as readers before you are even wanting or needing. That’s what 2 or 3 Questions is all about–and now, it’s...
View ArticleProposed Literary Remakes
The recent announcement that The Hogarth Shakespeare program has invited notable writers like Margaret Atwood to revise and update some of the Bard’s greatest hits signifies that the literary world is...
View ArticleGreat Works of Fiction by Great American Athletes
The Winter Olympics are underway, bringing with them threats of terrorism, institutionalized bigotry, wild dogs, and finally world class athleticism. While many great authors have tackled the sporting...
View Article10 Tried and True Tips For Fighting Writer’s Block
1. Try revising your draft as if someone who wasn’t a totally worthless, talentless hack was writing it. 2. Relax, remind yourself that no one who ever wrote anything worth a damn ever got blocked, and...
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Game of Thrones…and Our Decline in Reading
Last week, season 5 of HBO’s acclaimed adaptation of George Martin’s Game of Thrones fantasy series came to its usual main-character-killing-end. Say it ain’t so, Sir Jon Snow! Predictably, this...
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