The Monday Post: Links for Readers and Writers

I am continuing a series (inspired by Electric Literature) where I post important links for writers and readers on Mondays. They may be old links or new links, but they’ll be ones that I find the most interesting or helpful. If there are any particular topics you’d like to read about, please feel free to suggest them in a comment on this post.

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“Defining Place and Space” via Ruminate Magazine

“Why Writing is So Hard” via Publisher’s Weekly

“Self-publishing lets women break book industry’s glass ceiling, survey finds” via The Guardian

“74 Essential Books for Your Personal Library: A List Curated by Female Creatives” via Open Culture

“Risky Similes and Writing Style: They Can Make or Break It” via Book Riot

“Unusual Library Collections Around the World” via Flavorwire

“The Last Holdouts of the Genre Wars: on Kazuo Ishiguro, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Misuse of Labels” via Electric Literature

“Lev Grossman, S.E. Hinton, and Other Authors on the Freedom of Writing Fanfiction” via Vulture

“The Meeting That Never Was by Matthew Lamb” via Los Angeles Review of Books

“The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers” via The New Yorker

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Featured Writings:

Nonfiction:

“Notes on the First Freeze in Dallas” by Mike Nagel

“For Every Area Roamed” by Sara Brace

Poetry:

“The Asphodel Plain; Act of Faith; Hospice” by Edmund Keeley

“At the Frozen Lakeshore and China” by Minglu Zeng

Fiction:

“The Pie Shell” by Jenny Williams

“Smoke Left Behind“ by Joy Clark

Books:

Jammu Mail by Buck Niehoff

Game World by C.J. Farley

Literary Magazines and Journals:

Toad Suck Review

Prairie Schooner

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Previous Posts on Mondays to do with Readings and Writings:

• March 9, 2015: nameless narration, the history of paying (or not paying) writers, and 10-minutes to success (among other things)
• March 2, 2015: can’t live without lit, dystopian dysfunctions, and the obscurest genre of them all (among other things)
• February 23, 2015: The answers on how to be a writer, bolstering your new year’s resolutions with books, and writing as a horror story (among other things)
• February 17, 2015: Critical critics, genre complexity, and love songs (among other things)
• February 9, 2015: Creation amidst chaos, foreign fiction foreign, and the data points on plot (among other things)
• February 2, 2015: Future predictor Dostoevsky, half-way readers, and favorite author help (among other things)
• January 26, 2015: Life by Lord Byron, the fiction of growing up, and destroying literary ignorance (among other things)
• January 19, 2015: Captivating writing, not-so-exciting plot structures, and reading myths (among other things)
• January 12, 2015: Monstrous envy, hipsters, and blind spots (among other things)

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