A question about creating literary mythologies and the antagonistic forces within them. [more inside]
posted on Jul 4, 2008 - 16 answers

Literary Darwinism: A relatively new field of evolutionary psychology / literary theory. What has recently been written in argument against it? [more inside]
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - 7 answers

What are your favorite short stories or short story collections, anthologies etc. [more inside]
posted on May 28, 2008 - 54 answers

What one book will allow others to gain the truest insight into the soul of each city or region [more inside]
posted on May 6, 2008 - 16 answers

I am looking for online magazines to submit art/literature/experimental/fun articles to. I think 'The Believer' magazine is a good example of the type I crave. UK based would be best, but not completely necessary. [more inside]
posted on Apr 23, 2008 - 9 answers

I am looking for writings on the infinity of definition. [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 32 answers

Recommendations/sources for good erotic writing? [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2008 - 16 answers

I am interested in the mimetic and narrative capacities of artefacts, how cultural remnants transmit information through time and how meaning is translated once an artefact is re-appropriated or examined from a new perspective. I have several avenues of study at the moment (a list in extended explanation), but would like some more ideas. Areas of critical theory, linguistics, evolutionary psychology and poetics are all relevant. [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 12 answers

I am in a search of a program that will help me memorize words... [more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2008 - 14 answers

Any examples of great works of literature that were written on scraps of paper or created using inferior devices?
posted on Dec 28, 2007 - 34 answers

What are tomorrow's avant-garde art/film/writing monuments that are being done today? [more inside]
posted on Oct 2, 2007 - 17 answers

I've just finished my first novel, now how do I revise this thing? [more inside]
posted on Sep 26, 2007 - 17 answers

PatronFilter: I'm tired of working for Starbucks. I want to write full time. Help me construct a letter to the opulent to remind them of yesteryear when the arts were supported by benefactors. Help me convince the rich that paying for me to live comfortably will serve humanity. [more inside]
posted on Jul 20, 2007 - 35 answers

Recommendations for well-written narrative nonfiction books about Seattle? [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2007 - 6 answers

Please help me find a way to electronically organize my magazine article collection. [more inside]
posted on Apr 12, 2007 - 6 answers

I am looking for well regarded books/scholarly papers about writing. Most specifically in the areas of Nonfiction (the essay style of article writing) and Children's Fiction (for a young adult audience). Any tips? Go as far and broad as you can. I'll be off to the British library tomorrow, so the sky is the limit. [more inside]
posted on Jan 9, 2007 - 6 answers

I remember a friend of mine telling me about a short story/novel/novella about a baseball pitcher whose pitched balls disappeared after leaving his hand, only to reappear in a totally different place and kill someone. There's [more inside]
posted on Nov 22, 2006 - 9 answers

'The Flâneur': What fascinating titbits can you add to my knowledge about this concept? Art, history, philosophy and literary theory links all welcome. [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2006 - 22 answers

Can you think of any examples of "disjointed" writing -- writing with abrupt transitions -- that works? Faulkners Sound and Fury is a good example but shorter pieces are better for my purposes. Can be fiction or non-fiction. [more inside]
posted on Sep 27, 2006 - 17 answers

Enrique Vila-Matas is an author known by using other author's quotations into his own fiction books. Bartleby & Co. and El mal de Montano quote dozens of works by other authors. How can he do this, legally? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2006 - 2 answers

Has anyone vastly improved -- or just changed -- someone else's already published writing by editing? [more inside]
posted on Aug 30, 2006 - 25 answers

a short story by a continental european writer that directly addresses or suggests conflicts within human nature-- the desire to perform "good" acts vs. our tendency (the temptation) to commit "evil" ones? [more inside]
posted on Mar 8, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm interested in learning more about language/literature-based events. Not so much the traditional poetry reading, more like innovative ways people come together in a relaxed environment to do some sort of activity that revolves around reading stuff aloud and telling stories. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2006 - 7 answers

OnlineLitFilter: I'm after recommendations for good, current, original fiction available online. [more inside]
posted on Mar 2, 2006 - 11 answers

Looking for good literature which features living in a condo. [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2005 - 8 answers

I want to read great biographies. Which are the best? [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2005 - 37 answers

What are some great novels and/or myths that feature two heroes?
posted on Apr 13, 2004 - 33 answers

Fiction that centers on online interaction? [mo' inside makes it mo' inside]
posted on Feb 6, 2004 - 16 answers

Recently, on the "Mary Celeste" Metafilter thread, Languagehat, Davehat, and I spontaneously coauthored (with no prior discussion) a bizarre, surrealist triptych I've dubbed "Food-Based Psychic Spying defense technology in the Cold War - A retrospective". I think we may polish it up a bit, add some bits here and there, and try to have it published - in hardcopy - somewhere. But where? Any suggestions for venues or submission protocol? Thanks.
posted on Dec 24, 2003 - 4 answers