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A Big Shitty Party: Six Parables of Writing about Other People | Journal

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Dear Miss Bankhead: I thought I was a friend of yours. That’s why there’s nothing in my book that was unfriendly to you, unkind or libelous. Because I didn’t want to drag you, I tried six times last month to talk to you on the damn phone, and tell you about the book just as a matter of courtesy. That bitch you have who impersonates…Continue reading →

A Big Shitty Party: Six Parables of Writing about Other People By Melissa Febos Buy the Issue Toggle Table of Contents Mar/Apr 2022 Vol. XLIV No. 2 Fiction Angela Woodward Ink Jennifer Croft Anaheim Willa C. Richards What Can’t Be Grown Must Be Mined Jared Jackson Bebo Daniel J. O’Malley The Allens Why We Chose It Elliott Holt Why We Chose It: “Bebo” by Jared Jackson Richie Hofmann Why We Chose It: “Human Resources” by Ryann Stevenson Nonfiction Dylan Reynolds Butchers Erika Veurink Pioneer Days Annalisa Bolin Like Dogs Poetry Major Jackson Of Wolves and Imagination Ryann Stevenson Human Resou

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