Imagine a long line of traffic waiting for a light to turn green. You are driving a Ford Fiesta twelve cars back. Now, when the light turns, if every driver is watching and starts accelerating at a reasonable rate, everyone in the line can start moving at the same instant. You advance immediately. That way […]

Look at the jam in Congress. One side proposes a budget the other can’t countenance; the second blocks all progress. The parties remind us of two overly wide men trying to pass through the same door but wedged shoulder-to-shoulder. Neither will yield, so neither can move. We at Fiction Writers for Better Misinformation have two […]

Rebranding Literature is a simple plan to make literature more relevant in the marketplace of ideas by maximizing revenue potential. Over the course of human history, great works of literature—including wildly popular pieces that are perennial sellers—have generated less revenue in aggregate than a single day’s worth of Starbucks sales. Why is literature losing out […]

Once more, with callused, exhausted fingers, we take up the pen. On November 6, 2012, as the last voters filed through the polls, we at Fiction Writers for Better Misinformation hung up our ink-stained capes, thinking we’d done all we could to keep America together through the divisive campaign season. We looked on with some […]

Our nation is divided and many of us are pained by the seemingly irreconcilable differences between two groups of our fellow citizens. Gun control advocates, on the one hand, shocked by the devastation a disturbed person can cause with the aid of a few pounds of carefully machined steel and explosive powder, want to restrict […]

We have recently come across a source of internal memos showing the Republican Party struggling to redefine itself in the wake of electoral defeat. Here’s the latest: FROM: Frank Thompson, Culver City BPOE TO: Reince Priebus, Chairman, Republican National Committee Dear Reince, We’re losing ground on so many fronts, but the thing that killed us this […]