Hi folks. Here's what we've been up to at Necessary Fiction:

Court Ludwick joined us again to review The Orange Notebooks by Susanna Crossman (Assembly Press). 

Authors Hasan Dudar and Pardeep Toor discussed their debut collections Hands (Curbstone Press) and Carryout (University of Iowa Press).

And this week's featured fiction was an excerpt from Chen Tàitai's Big Business by Adalena Kavanagh.

Elsewhere, Ghost In The Rain, a chapbook by Matthew Jakubowski, was published by Bottlecap Press. And On the Bodies of Strangers by Hannah Stevens is forthcoming from Wind & Bones.

Plus our fiction editor Lacey Dunham is offering a six month Novel Overhauler workshop through The Writer's Center.

Finally, after a week in which we learned that AI can apparently write stories capable of winning literary awards (whether the story deserves it or not), I hope this weekend you'll do something only a person could do. Perhaps making art that speaks from the self instead of the surface, or perhaps making pasta no machine can produce. I'll be making music full of happy, human mistakes.

Thanks for reading,

Steve Himmer