Jessi Lewis

Jessi Lewis has her MFA in fiction and an MA in Writing and Rhetoric. She was one of the founding editors of Cheat River Review and now works to bring her own fiction, poetry and essays to eyes each month.     Twitter: @jessiwrit

On Ignoring Genre Divisions

The Internet world loves debates, but there are some debates that wear thin. For me, few of them are as ...

Risky Similes and Writing Style: They Can Make or Break It

I’ve pointed out the value of beautiful language before, but now it’s time to get specific. Just to make sure we ...

Sweet Literary Tracks on Spotify

Sometimes, for me, it feels as though reading is similar to eating. We consume books, pull ourselves through plot lines, ...

Read to Me: Picking Books for Toddlers

Hail to toddlers: they are the tiniest population (so-to-speak) and the most fun to buy books for. Keep in mind, if ...

Stranger In a Strange Land: Picking Books Based on Setting

There’s a pile of books waiting for me in which every plot line exists in a different location and time ...

Defining The End of the World As We Know It: Apocalyptic vs. Dystopia vs. Spec Fic

Ever since Sherman Alexie pushed Lepucki’s post-apocalyptic book, California: A Novel, on Stephen Colbert’s Colbert Report and into the mainstream ...

What Not to Say to Bookstore Employees

Maybe don't say these things to people who work in a bookstore.

On Discarding Old Cookbooks

There comes a day for every cookbook reader when that once-trendy Curry/Appetizer/Barbeque-Beer/Cookie-Pie/Holiday/TV Celebrity cookbook suddenly doesn’t apply to your daily ...

On Noticing Beautiful Writing

Next time, highlight or rewrite the best line of the book you’re reading. Then read it out loud. Twice. Roll ...

A Response to Twain’s Grave Robbery: Ways to Honor Him Legally

You may have heard: At some point over the holiday season, somebody went to Mark Twain’s grave, climbed a ladder ...