Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. James Franco’s film adaptation of David Shields’ I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, which Shields co-wrote and co-stars in, was released in 2017. Shields wrote,…
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The “Journey” of Reading
And the Function of Suspense By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes In “Disorientation and the Experience of Wonder,” we looked at the ways in which “travel” might be likened to our experience while we read—reading constituting a…
Being "Walled to a Stop"
Disorientation and the Experience of Wonder* By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes “We came up over the crest and were walled to a stop.” “Walled to a stop.” So Ivan Doig begins his powerful evocation of that…
Digital Painting and Different Mediums
Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Dublin, Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, non-fiction have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and America, includingThe Stinging Fly, Skylight 47, Acumen and Smiths Knoll. His recent photography collection includesLying Down With The Dead. He also makes…
Grief and Healing After Crime
Eye on the Indies: A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Review Editor Lemon by Kwon Yeo-sun, translated by Janet Hong (New York: Other Press, October 12, 2021; 160 pp; $20.00 hardcover, $11.99 ebook; ISBN 9781635420883). Originally published in 2019 in Korean by Changbi in Seoul, Korea. “Consequences are…
A Novel in Notebooks
Review of Peter Selgin’s Duplicity By Jack Smith, WTP Guest Writer Duplicity by Peter Selgin (South Orange, NJ: Serving House Books, December 4, 2020; 396 pages; $17.95; ISBN 978-1947175433). The text of this novel is a found object of six composition notebooks, containing, states one Emeritus Professor Gayton F. Sinclair, PhD, in his Afterword, autobiography mixed…
WTP Vol. IX #8
This month: street photography, the architectural, photorealistic painting (with a twist!), a story of Waldo, poetry, and more. click on cover to go to issue Print copy available here. To view more extraordinary issues, visit our WTP Magazine page.
Intricate Emotional Currents
A Pulitzer Prize–Winning Collection By Sara London, Poetry Editor Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Minneapolis: Gray Wolf Press, March 3, 2020; 120pp; $16.00; ISBN 978-1-64445-014-7). Natalie Diaz’s second collection, winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for poetry, is a raw and exuberant evocation of rage, resistance, and desire. The ‘want’ that is waged here, however,…
The Traditional as Modernist Approach
Modernism in a Post-Modern Era By Martin Mugar, WTP Guest Writer There was a good deal of enthusiasm surrounding the late Andrew Forge’s exhibit this summer at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York City, but its title “The Limits of Sight” seemed mistaken. My first reaction was, whoever titled this show was making the…
Freezing Memories
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Edward Lee is an artist and writer from Ireland. His paintings and photography have been exhibited widely, while his poetry, short stories, and nonfiction…
In the Conditional Mood
Enjoy our WTP Spotlights, notable selections featuring artists and writers from our Woven Tale Press magazine. To read the issue in full subscribe and you can also register on our site to enjoy our archive. Megan Staffel’s stories have been published in The New England Review, Ploughshares, The Common, Seattle Review, among others, and collected in The Exit Coach…
Further Reflection on Metaphor
Metaphors as Affording us “Magnified Sight” and Related Considerations By WTP Writer Richard Wertime Woven Tale Press writer Richard Wertime reflects on the craft of fiction in an ongoing series of craft notes In the previous craft note, we broached the question of how a metaphor might be given the proper space to breathe, the…