Keyhole publishes Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA alum Tim Waldron's story, "King Bro." Studying under Thomas E. Kennedy and Ellen Akins, "King Bro" was the first story he wrote as an FDU grad student. Tim writes: “Banana!” He said and started to swing. He pulled his fist back so far that...
READ MOREFDU MFA faculty member Ellen Akins reviews Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie at the Star Tribune. Akins writes: There are monsters who slip through wormholes, or slits between worlds; there are battles and set pieces, in Fairyland and on Earth; there are sometimes...
READ MOREThis weekend's "Bookends" in the "NYTBR" prompted FDU MFA faculty Ellen Akins to go back and look at many takes on the topic of literary difficulty from the last few years, all linked in her post of samples (of Zoe Heller, Leslie Jamison, Christine...
READ MOREA review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune of Susan Minot's Thirty Girls, a novel about a somewhat lost and privileged western woman traveling to (and through) Africa to tell the story of Ugandan girls abducted by soldiers, focusing on one girl, Esther, whose voice, beautifully rendered,...
READ MOREEllen Akins's review of E. L. Doctorow's new novel, Andrew's Brian, appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday, January 13....
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