Lorrie Moore is a short story and fiction writer. She graduated from St. Lawrence University in New York in 1978 and received an MFA from Cornell University in 1982. Moore published her first book of short stories, Self-Help, in 1985 and quickly became known for her cleverly candid approach to p

Clever, Domestic, Melancholy

Lydia Davis is a consummate translator and one of the foremost contemporary short and short-short story writers; her influence within the short-short story medium seems immeasurable, as nearly every literary magazine pumps out 250-word story after 250-word story, each attempting – but few, if any,

Anxiety, Architectural, Citational, Clever, Experimental, Pioneering, Playful, Witty

Critic and writer Luc Sante has been opining about art and culture since the mid-80s. He frequently contributes to the New York Book Review and has written for the Village Voice. His books include Low Life (1991), Evidence (1992), The Factory of Facts (1998), Walker Evans (1999), and Kill All You

Clever, Playful, Political

Freelance journalist, writer, reviewer, photographer. I've taken a love of words — of expressing parts of myself through such fundamental, organic means, of manipulating the abstract to create something tangible — and a passion for music — in all its stages, forms, expressions, contexts — and

Clever, Conceptual, Contemplative, Ebullient, Layered, Open-ended, Sincere, Witty