Shiny Family :: Recent news from our Non-fiction contributors

GS 4.2’s Ben Tanzer talks fireworks, his latest book THE NEW YORK STORIES, running, and more over at Alternating Current :: http://ow.ly/PVbCW

Read three lyric essays by GS 6.2 (!!!) flash non-fiction writer Paul Arrand Rodgers up at The Mondegreen :: http://ow.ly/PVcxc

GS 4.1’s Tara Isabella Burton writes about “the Goncourt brothers, fame, and the 19th century literati” at The Paris Review :: http://ow.ly/PVc93

Shiny Family :: Recent news from our Non-fiction contributors

Alex McElroy (GS 5.2) diagrams his latest short story “The Death of Your Son: A Flow Chart” in none other than Diagram.  We promise you, it’ll make your heart skip three beats.

Our non-fiction editor Ian Carlos Crawford interviews the cast of Peacekeepers, a queer- and trans*-friendly sci-fi web series of Geeks OUT.  DIG IT.

Mike Doughty, our current GS flash non-fiction contest judge writes a rock opera, because what can’t Mike Doughty do? The world premiere is on January 27th at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space in NYC (hint, New Yorkers, hint).

And over at Smithsonian Magazine, Tara Isabella Burton (GS 4.1) paints a world of show business glitz, defying gender norms, and Turkey’s changing attitudes towards the gay community in “Inside the World of Istanbul’s Male Belly Dancers.”