February 2012
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Cera, by Sian Cummins →
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In Memoriam: Barney Rosset →
from The Paris Review’s The Art of Publishing No. 2:
In 1951, he bought a fledgling literary publishing company, Grove Press, named after the Greenwich Village street where it began. For the next thirty-three years he ran it from various locations in the same neighborhood, developing Grove into a critical part of the downtown New York firmament and one of the most influential publishers of...
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Want List: 'Stay Awake' by Dan Chaon →
from The Book Beast:
Dan Chaon’s intent in his chilling new short-story collection is clear. In the opening line, “Gene’s son Frankie wakes up screaming.” We learn that Gene is a UPS deliveryman trying to escape his past, and his son’s bloodcurdling screams are reminders that “something bad has been looking for him for a long time, he thinks, and now, at last, is growing near.” In these haunting...
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from Patrick Somerville: Empathy and Reading →
patricksomerville:
To me, the penultimate paragraph is the most interesting part of the review, and I will end this empathy ramble there, noting that fiction writers, I think, should pitch a tent within these temporary episodes if they want to write well and continue to understand characters:
At the core of this deceptively simple book is the question of the nature of cruelty. In the last...
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“The moon-faced fat mayor smiled and his triplicate chin wobbled. His thick...”
– Marcus Speh, “Candy”
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David Foster Wallace Turns 50 →
dannygoodman.me:
An excerpt from my essay, “Angles of Response to Your Angles, or Brief Reflections on Tennis, Sharks, and the Loss of David Foster Wallace,” to celebrate what would have been David Foster Wallace’s fiftieth birthday.
“The goosebumps still came, despite having read that passage at least a dozen times before. Wallace had memorized the facts, the numbers; it seemed, however, even...
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Come see what readers are saying about Marcus... →
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“Marcus Speh’s story took me apart.”
– Susan Tepper, author of From the Umberplatzen, on Marcus Speh’s new fiction, “Candy,” at fwriction : review
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“He sipped coffee and remembered beginnings.”
– Raymond Carver, from “The Augustine Notebooks”
(via dannygoodman.me)
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FSG: Michael Cunningham on Translation →
A wonderful piece on translation from Michael Cunningham.
fsgbooks:
“As the author of Las Horas, Die Stunden and De Uren — ostensibly the Spanish, German and Dutch translations of my book The Hours, but actually unique works in their own right — I’ve come to understand that all literature is a product of translation…
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Call for Submissions: the Sidney W. Vernick Award... →
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“You never left, and my eyes cannot get up…”
– Ben Nardolilli, “What They’re Trying to Tell Me”
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“Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way,...”
– Marilyn Hacker
(via asymptotejournal)
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Two Poems by Ben Nardolilli →
Enjoy Two Poems by Ben Nardolilli in the new issue of fwriction : review: “What They’re Trying to Tell Me” and “Most Celebrated Work.”
Share these wonderful poems with lovers of literature.
Bonus! Listen to Ben Nardolilli’s song choice for the Waffle-Rocking Playlist.
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If the Literary Scene was a High School Cafeteria →
No one told me this existed, but now I cannot stop reading it. Perfectly executed by A.K Mayhew over at Specter Literary Magazine.
I have a fairly vivid imagination, and ever since I “kind of” “entered” the literary scene less than a year ago—via reading literary blogs, following publishing news, joining Twitter and following literary peeps there, joining this here Specter staff, etc.—I can’t...
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Literary Heirs →
At fwriction : review, we love scrappy journals. What a fantastic list (PANK! Electric Lit! Unstuck!) and shout-out in The New York Times!
Consider the literary magazine. Cloaked in pointy-headed obscurity, it almost always loses money. And now, with printed media on the endangered list, it may seem especially at risk to go extinct (or online-only). But these scrappy journals are actually...
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“There are no favorites here, she said. Consider this a warning.”
– Megan Mayhew Bergman, “The Autobiography Of Allegra Byron”
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Raymond Carver's "On Writing" →
from Raymond Carver’s “On Writing”:
“What creates tension in a piece of fiction is partly the way the concrete words are linked together to make up the visible action of the story. But it’s also the things that are left out, that are implied, the landscape just under the smooth (but sometimes broken and unsettled) surface of things.
V.S. Pritchett’s definition of a short...
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“Often, I would catch it in the mirror as I stepped out of the shower. A spectre,...”
– Zoe Dzunko, “The Bruise”
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“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit...”
– Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
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Zoe Dzunko's "The Bruise" Makes the Orange Alert... →
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“When I write fiction, I understand people.”
– Alex Moody, “Container #7”
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Fictionaut Blog: Monday Chat With Nicolette Wong →
Over at the delightful Fictionaut Blog, Susan Tepper interviews Nicolette Wong about her flash fiction, “Last Night on Oil Street,” which appeared in the December 22, 2011 issue of fwriction : review. The piece, lyrical and stunning, captivated readers with its distinctive style and gorgeous poetics.
Susan Tepper: You break up your stunning prose poem “Last Night On Oil...
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Author Homepage
Beginning today, all updates, information, fun, etc., regarding my own writing can be found at my author homepage: http://www.dannygoodman.me.
In the ongoing efforts to remove my own writing from fwriction, to allow the blog to really focus on and promote the writing of others (including and most notably the writers published in fwriction : review), all posts regarding my written works will...
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“Meanwhile you have rolled yourself a cigarette, say, and inserted it with great...”
– “In the Electric Tram” by Robert Walser at the NYRblog, an excerpt from the recently released Berlin Stories, translated by Susan Bernofsky
Find NYRB Classics on Tumblr here.
(Bonus: Bernofsky also translated Walser’s novel The Tanners, published by New Directions.)
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