Successful prose fiction weaves together the fabric of true-to-life experience with the artificial fiber of created characters and synthesized plot lines.

FORBES: Book Review: Douglas Brunt's "The Ghosts of Manhattan"

With the American economy still in trouble, and the jobless future still appearing quite bleak, now is the time to look back over the past decade through the probing truth-telling eyes of prose fiction.

FORBES: Book Review: Douglas Brunt's "The Ghosts of Manhattan"

Westerns, Regency romances, film noir: those are genres kinds of stories with specific categories of subjects and conventions for their content and presentation. (Stories about superheroes are a genre, too.) Prose fiction, sculpture, video: those, like comics, are media forms of expression that have few or no rules regarding their content other than the very broad ones imposed on them by their form.

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Ms. PROSE: Historical fiction in the first person - I mean my mind is now going blank.

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Ms. PROSE: What kind of narrative non-fiction do you write or are you interested in writing?

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In those years, I was drawn to science fiction (and mainly to its prose forms) for the evidence it offered of manifold possibilities of otherness.

NEWYORKER: Olds Rocket 88, 1950