Pulp fiction. It's not just the name of a Quentin Tarantino movie. It's also a literary genre as popular in the 1930s, '40s and '50s as comic books and graphic novels are today.

Cloud Atlas is addictively readable - David Mitchell mixes adventure stories, thrillers, science fiction and Westerns - but also daringly challenging.

Boise Weekly honors such thrifty writers in our annual Fiction 101 contest. Not only is it a short, short, short short story writing contest — it is, strictly speaking and in every sense of the ...

Boise Weekly honors such thrifty writers in our annual Fiction 101 contest. Not only is it a short, short, short short story writing contest — it is, strictly speaking and in every sense of the ...