Hello, my name is Zac Crain and I’m D Magazine‘s fiction editor as well as its best highway driver and resident pedestrian. You may remember me from such collections as this one and, I don’t know, I ...

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true is a cutesy Hallmark sentiment. Follow your heart and your dreams will probably come crashing into a heap around you is the more realistic version, one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the future of books and the business of storytelling. Since joining the platform in January 2015, Darling has earned ...

In a Current Comment item in the America issue of March 2, 2008, the editors commented on “microfiction,” the venerable subgenre of fiction that forsakes the traditional short story length, usually ...

A couple years ago, startup publisher Serial Box launched with an aim to publish stories in a slightly different way: tell a longer story by breaking it up into manageable, shorter stories, written by ...

BALTIMORE — I’m at the front door of artist Joseph Young’s house, in the middle of a lovely block in the lovely neighborhood of Hampden. It’s a perfect October day. Instead of a welcome mat, I just ...

In Joseph Young’s parlor, there are words on the ceiling: “They came. They went,” they read. There are words on the computer, the windows, the kitchen cupboard, the bedspread upstairs. Young is a ...

Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines and the University of the Philippines Diliman, will present “Lo bueno, si breve,” a workshop on ...