Red Room Where the Writers Are

Here is a link to a really amusing and original short story I just read on Guernica, an online literary and cultural magazine you may not have heard of: http://tinyurl.com/r2xja9.

The story, by Elizabeth Crane, who has written several collections of short stories, is about a group of "geniuses" who get together to validate each other each week. No gay men, although they do know of one gay male genius, and no women, although they "are not saying there are no lady geniuses..." the men at the meeting simply don't know any. They reminesce about miserable childhoods, failed marriages to supermodels, envying "dumb" people, and more.

After reading it, I decided to invite the author to join Red Room. By the way, please feel free to invite any authors you come across to join Red Room! The more original voices you stumble across and invite to join us here, the better.

Guernica also does something fun at the end of each short story: They ask the author to note and link to an author that she or he recommends. I love that idea. We need more ways to do that on Red Room, too.

Do you think we should do a short weekly fiction piece on the Red Room homepage/magazine each week? Let us know. Thanks!