September 2011
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The Flash Issue of Blue Fifth Review Is Full of... →
Here are some highlights from Blue Fifth Review’s Flash Special Issue. You should definitely check it out:
“I turn up the music and slip into drone, rock it like a tunnel in canary. When that does not erase his face, I cup my breast with one hand and let my hair fall.” - Nicolette Wong, “As Pleat”
“I’m sure it was the rescue that ushered in the affair.”...
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The new issue of fwriction : review is live! Get... →
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He is eight years old. On vacation with his parents in Cancun, he wanders off by himself down the beach. It is very hot, so he walks in the shallow water. He is wearing red and blue board shorts and goggles. He stops to pick up a shell, and when he stands up again, there is a man looking at him.
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“It is a stream of anger left behind by the missing train. She tries to inhale...”
– Nicolette Wong, “The Wind Is Going To Take You”
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Fictionaut Five: Ben Loory →
I love Ben Loory’s writing. His collection, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, is simply wonderful. Pick up a copy soon. In the meantime, enjoy this interview with Loory, from Meg Pokrass over at Fictionaut:
What things have you had to unlearn as a writer?
I think I had to unlearn virtually everything I learned as an undergrad studying English. I had to learn to write, not...
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“If you want to write, read a lot, then write a lot. Write all the time… and...”
– Maureen Johnson via Shelf Awareness
(from bookish)
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“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit...”
– Walter Benjamin
(via asymptotejournal)
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“For a prose narrative to be fictional it must be written for a reader who knows...”
– William Egginton, “‘Quixote,’ Colbert and the Reality of Fiction”
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A Conversation w/ Deborah Eisenberg →
Deborah Eisenberg, interviewed at Tin House:
“…the fact that I was bad at [writing], that I couldn’t just sit down and toss off a reasonable sentence, let alone a trilogy, bore no relation to whether I was suited to it. And that is precious, precious knowledge.”
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“Words are nets through which all truth escapes.”
– Paula Fox, “News From the World” (via Storyville)
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The new issue of fwriction : review is live! Hold... →
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Winds of words howled inside Gerald’s head as he sat silently eating his supper.
“You’ve just never been a people person.” Gerald’s wife picked at her lima beans, while behind glass, a panorama of juniper and blazing mountain ranges surrounded them.
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Paris Review Daily – A Doyle Man, by Michael Dirda →
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle, was the first grown-up book I ever read—and it changed my life. Back in the late 1950s, my fifth-grade class belonged to an elementary school book club. Each month our teacher would pass out a four-page newsletter describing several dozen paperbacks available for purchase. I remember buying Jim Kjelgaard’s Big Red and a thriller...
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fwriction : review gets a small shout-out from... →
Adorable couple waiting for some truth and memory: Danny Goodman, Chief Editor and Founder of Fwriction: Review (new stuff each week!) and Laura Brown, Fwriction Poetry Editor and all-around student of literature.
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Excerpt from "Memorial Day"
“Eventually, we made it to Ditch Plains; I searched for my father in the collection of surfers enjoying the instability of the morning. He wasn’t among them. Marta suggested we turn around, that she needed to meet with her father before the day grew too late. She said it just that way, too: before the day grows, as if we’d met at the day’s inception, walked in its childhood, and we could...
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“Families do that, implicate you in them.”
– Lynne Tillman, “But There’s A Family Resemblance” (via Storyville)
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How to Balance Writing, Reading, Being a Human →
Writing for Specter Literary Magazine, former fwriction : review contributor Brett Elizabeth Jenkins asks one of the most difficult questions, one I struggle with daily: how do you balance life and writing?
What sucks is that most of us, if we call ourselves writers, don’t get paid for what we love to do. Some of us enjoy teaching, and we do it. And some of us really love it. But some of us...
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“I would have lived, sure, but not nearly as well.”
– George Saunders, “The Secret Mansion” (The New York Times Magazine)
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The new issue of fwriction : review is live! Enjoy... →
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The Consequences of Writing Without Reading →
Buzz Poole takes a look at a question which has haunted my creative writing teaching life: How can you want to write when you don’t read?
This piece follows up on one by Macy Halford over at The Book Bench, and it’s a good one.
I make this analogy for students who tell me they want to write but dislike reading (it works for the young writers, anyway): You tell me you want to be...
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Poem of the Day: "Miller vs. Winterbourne," by... →
The new issue of fwriction : review, “Miller vs. Winterbourne,” a distinctively singular poem by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft, is today’s Story of the Day. Enjoy, and share with others!
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Waits wants only a little sad she is watching under plate glass the ruffles and pant creases that saunter past flaneur comfort all anonymous of course none is what/whom she has...
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“These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.”
– Don DeLillo, Falling Man
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