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  • “I went to confer a favour and you will go to ask one. If they are proud you will be on the right side.”
    —Henry James as Mrs. Prest, “The Aspern Papers”

    Henry James was a writer of the first order, with an understanding of character astonishing in its depth, a beauty of language and atmosphere haunting in its resonance, a sense of tension that reaches out of the page to lock around the reader’s throat, and a grasp of grammar like a half-nelson. But where he really excelled was in plotting.

    Today let’s dissect the plot of his extraordinary story “The Aspern Papers”. . .

    Read the full essay on Pulp Rag.

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Scott Warrender
Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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Bhaichand Patel is the author of two nonfiction books: Chasing the Good Life (Penguin Books India, October, 2006), and Happy Hours (Penguin Books India, October, 2009). I edited Patel's debut novel, When the Streets Were Cold and Dark.


I've edited a number of nonfiction essays for my friend Lucia Orth. (Many years ago, my contribution to Baby Jesus Pawn Shop was simply a peer critique and participation in a standing ovation.)


The poet Chris Ryan is the author of The Bible of Animal Feet (Farfalla Press, 2007). He has recent stories in Pank, Anemone Sidecar, and A Cappella Zoo. I edited Ryan's novel The Ishmael Blade and worked with him on his debut novel Heliophobia and WIP Pogue.