Morning Bites: Heart of Darkness opera, Novel Writing Month, River Phoenix, Groucho & T.S., and much more

Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to debut as an opera. Happy National Novel Writing Month.  Here are six works that were written in under 31 days to serve as inspiration for you. Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot were were penpals. Emma Straub writes about the death of River Phoenix and the effect it had on her for Rookie. Vol. 1’s Jason Diamond hangs out with Gigantic Mag’s James Yeh to listen to the new Real Estate album over at Impose. Stream the Beach Boys SMiLE […]

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Sweetest Novel Ever?

Posted by Juliet Linderman Hey all you writerly creatures: Have you always wanted to write a novel, but the length is daunting and you’re not sure you can sustain that twenty-something-coming-of-age-story-slash- fictionalized-memoir for a full 50,000 words? No sweat! In honor of National Novel Writing Month, Evolve Journal is looking for approximately 50 writers to contribute to a collaborative novel they’re putting together and frankly, the project sounds pretty awesome to me. The deal is Evolve aims to embark on […]

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