Donald Mengay

Literature has been obsessed with its ability to confer immortality for millenniums. There are countless examples over time, including an...

It's one thing to turn out a novel, another to land a press to publish it, and a whole other enchilada to find a readership. For the...

In 1989 Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy sat down for a conversation on the subject of the subject, that is the entity taken for...

Sixteen years in coming! I thought it'd never arrive. By another math it's closer to forty-five. I determined to write novels in 1978 in...

To grasp the difference between a humanist and post-humanist mindset, you only need to read a recent article by Jonathan Franzen in The...

Among the many benefits that novel-writing affords a person is an awareness that a literary work is a mirror of sorts, reflecting as much...

When I first started teaching, decades ago, I followed the convention of many of my colleagues and read in class for the story. I...

When I set out to write the novel that became The Lede to Our Undoing, I wanted to revisit the experience of falling in love with another...

Although I suspect the idea was circulating around the entire ancient world, in and outside of what we call Greece today, it was Plato...

To say diversity is strength isn't a mere meme or pretty saying. It's a fact. Genetically speaking a heterogeneous line is a healthy one;...

The Lede is based on several assumptions linked to race. One of the most fundamental is that the US has never been a real democracy, and...

One of my objections to contemporary literature on the market today, including fiction, is that it largely overlooks the literary...

In the 1990s, at the same time I was sharing work with the poet, Lynn McGee, I was teaching linked courses with a professor in the...

The process took decades really. In a sense I began conceiving the story in the early 1990s. In the '80s I'd studied creative writing in...