The Black Genre
I remember the joy I used to get as a little kid perusing the aisles of books of my local library in Chicago. I was a nine-year-old who read H.G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, and J.R.R. Tolkien. The latter of whom—I must admit—I found extremely challenging. But I was nine; can you blame me?
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters opens with a chaotic scene: a house is on fire, Evie Cottrell stands screaming on the staircase, and Brandy Alexander lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, asking the narrator to tell her life story. What occurs after is a series of non-linear stories in which the reader slowly learns about the characters and the circumstances by which they’ve become what they are.
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Comic: Writers Rules in the Real World

Uncharted Waters

WritersNewsWeekly is proud to be the first online newspaper geared to those in the literary industry. Notwithstanding the date’s traditional meaning, April 1, 2008 is a big day for the WNW staff; we feel that we have taken on a huge responsibility and are ready to deliver what we have set out to do. Our job, from here on out, is to provide the literary industry with up-to-date relevant news, forecast trends, offer thought-provoking insights, and perhaps most importantly, stir up conversation. Our motto says it all: “Writing something worth reading: Doing something worth writing about.” Everything we post we stand behind; we are an open-minded staff committed to keeping the literary industry current with the issues affecting our trade.

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