creative-writing – Page 14

What makes fiction literary?

How do we define a style that many see as elitist, pretentious, and irrelevant?

What does the term “literary fiction” mean? What makes a story or essay or novel literary instead of … something else?

That’s a question I’ve been pondering for some time now. Lately, a series of pieces appearing online have attempted to get at an answer.

Feast your eyes on these recent publications

Nibble on these morsels published recently in The Argyle Literary Magazine’s “gastronomy” issue

Earlier this month, a couple of my pieces were published in The Argyle Literary Magazine‘s special “gastronomy” issue. As the title of this themed issue makes clear, the stories, poems, and creative nonfiction pieces of this issue all have something to do with cooking or eating food.

I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read my contributions, which are companion pieces of a sort:

“The Things Our Mother Made Us Eat,” and
“The Things My Father Used to Eat,” which was published previously in Club Plum Literary Magazine.

I hope you’ll also take the time to feast on some of the other delicious writings in this special issue and read more from The Argyle‘s previous issues.

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