Author: Daniel Cross
Daniel Cross
Daniel covers fiction and literary culture, with a particular interest in how stories hold up against the reality they describe.
From Colson Whitehead profiles to Walter Mosley on the novel’s nature, June 26’s literary world spans history, fiction, and translation.
The Black List and Zando’s Evil Twin imprint launch a manuscript competition offering $25,000 for an unpublished horror novel. Submissions close November 20, 2026.
Kathryn Stockett leads indie fiction charts as Grove, Slowburn, and New Directions dominate. Beth Brower’s small-press series lands four times in the top 40.
Bobuq Sayed’s debut novel No God but Us rewrites the Americans Abroad genre with two queer Afghan men in Istanbul — and a structural critique embedded in the form itself.
Dashiell Hammett’s birthday, AI grief in academia, a 200,000-simile dataset, and two poems that refuse to explain themselves. Literary culture, May 27.
Most people intend to read the Great Books but never do. Shame and academic gatekeeping explain why — and why neither obstacle is real.
Wallace Shawn’s double bill at Greenwich House Theater challenges theatrical conventions with literary language and static staging that somehow creates magnetic drama.
Literary world confronts AI poetry debates while international censorship cases reshape publishing landscape.
Netflix’s East of Eden adaptation reimagines Cathy Ames as an antihero rather than villain, with Florence Pugh starring in Zoe Kazan’s fresh take on Steinbeck’s classic.
William Kentridge maps 47 years of artistic practice through exhaustive lists of subjects drawn and undrawn, creating an inadvertent autobiography through accumulated sketches.