A graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Jenn Mar has written about the world of Egon Schiele, the poetics of ramen noodles, and the influence of South Africa’s apartheid politics on storytelling. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, and The Rumpus on food, culture, and the arts. She previously taught writing at the University of Massachusetts and is now website proofreader with Rain Taxi Review of Books. Follow her on Twitter @getfoodrevolt or read more of her writing at jennmarwrites.com.
Fall 2014
Human Instincts: Solipsism and Anomie in All My Friends
It's been long-held that literary realism serves to rouse the reader's compassion. John Gardner's widely read The Art of Fiction prescribes a style of storytelling predicated on humanism;
Winter 2014
The Art of Failure: Memory and Apartheid
When Ivan Vladislavic’s The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories was released last year, the incandescent and entrancingly strange “lost story” collection received little attention in the United States, even though Vladislavic is internationally recognized as one of South Africa’s most significant living writers.