I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.

Anakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.

Ultimately, you can only ever write what you know. It's logically and philosophically impossible to write what you don't know.

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.