Is My Book a Novel?

Is My Book a Novel? Lisa Gornick On Writing

"A novel?" a friend emailed after reading an early review of what I'd thought was my collection of linked stories. A week later, a second review also called the book a novel. I wondered, Is my book a novel? Read on...

The Making of Zombie Wars Aleksandar Hemon Excerpt

Joshua hated sleeping, but waking up was worse. Nightmares were not the problem: he never really had any. Nobody ever bothered to chase him in his dreams; he never plunged from a tall building to wake up just before exploding like a pomegranate, nor did he ever experience even the vaguest presence of death. There was little violence, only occasional vanilla sex, his dreams damp rather than wet, his subconscious a Wilmette where he was forever sleepily immortal. Still, he would wake up sweating, his heart thumping. What caused his torment was that the dreams were inconclusive; they did not so much end abruptly as they whimpered their lame way into his wakeful state; the absence of notable transition was the troubling thing. Baruch thought that whatever is, is either in itself or in the other. Well, Joshua's dreams were neither one nor the other. Read on... More