AT NEW POP LIT we’ve long believed in creative innovation. Artistic, human innovation. Among new techniques holding great potential in the literary sphere is what we call multidimensional fiction: offering multiple viewpoints in a single work. A change from the omnipresent solipsistic “I”– sometimes called autofiction– which dominates so much literary writing today. By presenting several perspectives, you create a more rounded work. More realistic, to the extent it simulates our three-dimensional universe.
Which Becky Tuch does well in our new feature short story, “Where the Rivers Meet.” Appropriately, the story’s chief setting is an art museum– places which offer a variety of perspectives.
OUR purpose as a literary site is to offer different perspectives and exhibit the best writing we can find– to be a kind of literary gallery which readers can walk through, and discover in various rooms fresh techniques, new ideas, and stimulating word canvases. Maybe also, works which capture a particular moment in time, as with Becky’s excellent story. Check it out!
Forget the fact that Erika had risen from sales associate to store manager after over a decade of assiduous work, that she had dropped Bess off with a steady rotation of friends in order to attend countless trade shows around the country, that she had stayed continually up to date on what was being done in stores all over the world—wooden wave-shaped chairs in Amsterdam’s Kunst Museum, a floor made of sand in Malta’s Military Nautical History Museum, puzzles, posters, magnets featuring the unsung women of Impressionism. Forget the personalities Erika put up with, the snotty or distracted curators, the petulant or neurotic artists, all to coordinate exhibits inside the store, all so shoppers would have an experience.
