We here at the Independent love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. Having said that, here are March’s winners.
- The Washington Writers Conference. Judging by how many readers perused the agent list, we’re guessing there are quite a few budding novelists out there eager to pitch their ideas! (If you haven’t registered for the April 25th conference yet, click here now. Time’s running out!)
- A review of The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve Fraser. Michael Causey’s assessment was excellent, the subject matter depressing. Politicians are completely in the pocket of big business, and the average worker barely stands a chance? Sigh.
- A review of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Novelist Paula McLain’s critique of this fairytale-like story brought in droves of Ishiguro fans who’ve been waiting anxiously since Never Let Me Go came out in 2006.
- “5 Ways to Make Your Fiction Come Alive.” Author and poet Mike Maggio offered some sound advice for making your prose sing. Better heed it!
- “9 Great Irish Writers Who Aren’t James Joyce.” What do you call people who claim to love A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man? Liars. Luckily, not every Emerald Isle scribe is so insufferably Joycean!
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