TNB Fiction Reviews!
The Nervous Breakdown is proud to present four new fiction review columns.

Toilet Humor

The Right Profile

On Regional Literature
How can we get writers from different regions to be read elsewhere and get the attention they need from the big media centers? What themes would a writer have to address to make our regional literatures national?

Where We Must Be

How to Write, Or Not

Leaving

The Magical Pig of Akron
A pig stuck under a car at a gas station ends up in the most unlikely place. This should get you squealing.

The Case for Disbelief

No One Will Remember if You Stick It In Your Butt

“BEFORE you, mother Idoto, naked I stand”
Yes, yes ya'll this is my idiosyncratic voice. From Nigeria to the US, with many interspersed stops abroad, and many more encounters avec les mots des tribus.

We Whirl and Twirl Upon the Beach at the Mermaid Cottage with Aristophanes, a Talking Cheese Grater, Litigious Dogs and Dancing Crabs

Always Fun When the Good Guys Win: An Interview with Jonathan Evison, Author of All About Lulu
Two authors talking about books, writing, publishing, work habits, dogs, and rabbits.

Paradise Re-Lost
All about the anxiety that precedes a cross-country move.

An Incomplete List of Things You Learn as a First-Time Author at BookExpo America
Sometimes the best and worst thing you can do is head to the bar.

Language and Longing
The Beauty of Isolation, Being Foreign and Washing Horses.