“You can’t write fiction if you’re not willing to upset people.” - Christine Merser Most stories don’t start as fiction. They start in lived experience, in observation, in the things you notice and can’t quite let go of. In a recent conversation with Dan Rattiner of Dan’s Papers for his podcast Dan’s Talks, Apricity founder Christine Merser talks about her novel Flight of the Starling and how much of it is pulled from the world around her. The people, the environments, the dynamics, it’s...

Apricity Publishing’s first anthology, America 2026: The Politics We Carry Home, invites writers to explore how politics is shaping everyday life, identity, and relationships.

For a long time, success was measured in visible ways. Houses. Cars. Titles. The outward signs that someone had made it. But something is shifting. People are beginning to ask a different question. Not what do I own, but what will remain of me when I am gone. Personal legacy is quietly becoming the new status symbol, not in a performative way, but in a deeply human one.