May 26th, 2012
Zoom dannygoodman.me: “My family would be leaving soon; we always ended our Memorial Day vacation before lunch on Monday: on our way out of town, my father would drive to Duryea’s, a small place on Fort Pond Bay next to the railroad station, where lobster rolls were procured and savored on the journey home. I couldn’t imagine the car ride, what we would say to one another, if anything. I held out hope that Liam, in his infinite wisdom and narcissism, would occupy us with uncomfortably carnal stories. Maybe, though, we had already said enough to one another. Maybe we could just move on. Maybe, hopefully, there would be no need for apologies anymore.” Read the opening excerpt of the novella, Memorial Day, over at Blue Fifth Review Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone!

dannygoodman.me:

“My family would be leaving soon; we always ended our Memorial Day vacation before lunch on Monday: on our way out of town, my father would drive to Duryea’s, a small place on Fort Pond Bay next to the railroad station, where lobster rolls were procured and savored on the journey home. I couldn’t imagine the car ride, what we would say to one another, if anything. I held out hope that Liam, in his infinite wisdom and narcissism, would occupy us with uncomfortably carnal stories. Maybe, though, we had already said enough to one another. Maybe we could just move on. Maybe, hopefully, there would be no need for apologies anymore.”

Read the opening excerpt of the novella, Memorial Day, over at Blue Fifth Review

Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone!

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May 20th, 2012
My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I’ve never done.
Richard Ford, on writing (via dannygoodman.me)
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May 7th, 2012
Translation is a highly addictive, and deeply satisfying, pursuit. It allows you to explore the linguistic dimensions of a vast array of subjects, and to throw yourself headlong into fields of inquiry you might never have engaged with otherwise, all the while tugging at the limits of your language.
Shelley Frisch, in discussion with Associate Editor Laura Brown for the first Translator Trio, regarding translation and her work on Erwin Uhrmann’s The War Beyond
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May 4th, 2012
The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2012 list is out, and it’s pretty amazing!  We are very excited to have Jen Knox’s short story, “Types of Circus,” make the Top 50 shortlist… Congratulations, Jen! In addition, Anthony Luebbert’s “The Education of the President’s Dog Quincy” made the Longlist!  We really do have the best contributors, ever. In fact, the following fwriction : review contributors made the list (shortlist chosen by Dan Chaon) for the brilliant work they published: Mensah Demary, Sara Lippmann, Meg Pokrass, Myfanwy Collins, Roxane Gay, Howie Good, Gary Percesepe, and Robb Todd. Best. Ever.

The Wigleaf Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions of 2012 list is out, and it’s pretty amazing! 

We are very excited to have Jen Knox’s short story, “Types of Circus,” make the Top 50 shortlist… Congratulations, Jen! In addition, Anthony Luebbert’s “The Education of the President’s Dog Quincy” made the Longlist! 

We really do have the best contributors, ever.

In fact, the following fwriction : review contributors made the list (shortlist chosen by Dan Chaon) for the brilliant work they published: Mensah Demary, Sara Lippmann, Meg Pokrass, Myfanwy Collins, Roxane Gay, Howie Good, Gary Percesepe, and Robb Todd.

Best. Ever.

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April 24th, 2012
…that’s how I learn to write and to translate: by reading.
Susan Bernofsky, as interviewed by Laura Brown, for our Writer Squared series
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April 20th, 2012

An awesomeface preview of our next Writer Squared installment!

LB: At fwriction : review, we value transparency in the writing process. That it isn’t just a magician’s work but is an exercise that requires time with actual pen to paper, followed by extensive revision. Can you speak to us a little about your own translation process and what that’s like?
SB: I revise like crazy. I never stop revising. The first draft of everything, I do really quickly and terribly. My first draft is completely, outrageously horrible, and then I revise, I revise the thing into submission. Literally, if you saw my first draft, you’d be embarrassed for me.
(Our newest installment for the Writer Squared interview series launches on Monday!)
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April 20th, 2012
A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting.
Very much enjoying Constance Hale’s series for The New York Times, “Writing Lessons” (thanks to writer Brian Morgan for drawing my attention to it!)

(Source: The New York Times)

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March 14th, 2012
Don’t have stories; have sentences.
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March 13th, 2012
Zoom 6 Writing Tips From John Steinbeck “Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.” I love and need this. The element of abandon in novel writing. Thanks for the words, JS.

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.”
I love and need this. The element of abandon in novel writing. Thanks for the words, JS.

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March 12th, 2012
Zoom Sidney Vernick was a great lover of nonfiction. Gore Vidal and Joseph Mitchell were favorites, along with John McPhee, George Orwell, and many others. He believed, despite his admiration for Norman Mailer, that the the writer deserved a good pop in the mouth. Ultimately, great nonfiction should be just that: a pop in the mouth. “If it’s truthful,” he once said, “whatever that means, then it’s worth the time. And that’s all that matters.” With Vernick’s words at heart, we are pleased to announce the Sidney W. Vernick Award in Nonfiction at fwriction : review. Submissions for the contest will be open from February 15 to April 15, 2012. The Nonfiction Issue will be published in June 2012. The winner will receive $100 and a two-week publication at fwriction : review. The runner-up will receive a signed copy of Matthew Salesses’ novella, The Last Repatriate, and publication in fwriction : review. A second runner-up will also be chosen for publication in the Nonfiction Issue. You may submit more than one piece to the contest, though each submission must be made separately and is subject each time to the small contest fee. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, as long the piece is withdrawn from the contest upon acceptance elsewhere. The word limit for nonfiction contest submissions is 7,500 words. Send us your toughest, greatest, most waffle-rocking works of nonfiction. Pop us in the mouth.

Sidney Vernick was a great lover of nonfiction. Gore Vidal and Joseph Mitchell were favorites, along with John McPhee, George Orwell, and many others. He believed, despite his admiration for Norman Mailer, that the the writer deserved a good pop in the mouth. Ultimately, great nonfiction should be just that: a pop in the mouth. 

“If it’s truthful,” he once said, “whatever that means, then it’s worth the time. And that’s all that matters.” 

With Vernick’s words at heart, we are pleased to announce the Sidney W. Vernick Award in Nonfiction at fwriction : review. 

Submissions for the contest will be open from February 15 to April 15, 2012. The Nonfiction Issue will be published in June 2012. 

The winner will receive $100 and a two-week publication at fwriction : review. The runner-up will receive a signed copy of Matthew Salesses’ novella, The Last Repatriate, and publication in fwriction : review. A second runner-up will also be chosen for publication in the Nonfiction Issue. 

You may submit more than one piece to the contest, though each submission must be made separately and is subject each time to the small contest fee. Only previously unpublished work will be considered. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, as long the piece is withdrawn from the contest upon acceptance elsewhere. The word limit for nonfiction contest submissions is 7,500 words. 

Send us your toughest, greatest, most waffle-rocking works of nonfiction. Pop us in the mouth.

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March 7th, 2012
  ’Do you write novels?’ I said.
‘Novels, Lord no,’ she said. ‘I can’t even stay married.’

Pam Houston, “Waltzing the Cat”

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March 6th, 2012
Woe Lung | Kenny Mooney | This Is Dragline

from Kenny Mooney’s blog, This Is Dragline:

“Woe Lung” has become quite a personal favourite of mine, and there are very loose connections between it and several other stories of mine, which I am referring to as the “Apartment Stories”. They’re all about people going mad in crappy flats.

I hope you enjoy the tale.

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March 6th, 2012
It’s Launch Day for fwriction : review contributor Myfanwy Collins’ (“The Whole Deal”) debut novel, Echolocation. Published by the delightful Engine Books, Echolocation has been called “a dazzling debut” by Ellen Meister and is sure to strike readers to the core. My advice: go get it, and share the love. Praise for Myfanwy Collins and Echolocation, from three of fwriction’s favorite writers: “Myfanwy Collins has the goods. It’s that simple. Echolocation is about love in all its magnificent slipperiness; it’s about how secrets bind us rather than rend us; it’s about the endless series of personal reinventions we call a lifetime. And these are things we had all better be thinking–and reading–about, if we plan to try and get out of this alive.” —Ron Currie Jr., author of God is Dead and Everything Matters! “Myfanwy Collins’ debut novel calls to mind the grim and radiant work of Daniel Woodrell. From page one, I was chilled by the landscape, caught up in the trouble, and riveted by these women of northernmost New York who slam back together and figure out how to live with what’s missing.” —Pia Z. Ehrhardt, author of Famous Fathers and Other Stories “Get ready to fall madly, sadly in love with the fiction of Myfanwy Collins.” —Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh

It’s Launch Day for fwriction : review contributor Myfanwy Collins’ (“The Whole Deal”) debut novel, Echolocation. Published by the delightful Engine Books, Echolocation has been called “a dazzling debut” by Ellen Meister and is sure to strike readers to the core. My advice: go get it, and share the love.

Praise for Myfanwy Collins and Echolocation, from three of fwriction’s favorite writers:

“Myfanwy Collins has the goods. It’s that simple. Echolocation is about love in all its magnificent slipperiness; it’s about how secrets bind us rather than rend us; it’s about the endless series of personal reinventions we call a lifetime. And these are things we had all better be thinking–and reading–about, if we plan to try and get out of this alive.” —Ron Currie Jr., author of God is Dead and Everything Matters!

“Myfanwy Collins’ debut novel calls to mind the grim and radiant work of Daniel Woodrell. From page one, I was chilled by the landscape, caught up in the trouble, and riveted by these women of northernmost New York who slam back together and figure out how to live with what’s missing.” —Pia Z. Ehrhardt, author of Famous Fathers and Other Stories

“Get ready to fall madly, sadly in love with the fiction of Myfanwy Collins.” —Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh

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March 6th, 2012
Thanks to a Twitter conversation, I found this amazing nonfiction piece by Aubrey Hirsch. Go read it.

Fortunately, this kind of silence is only temporary. Once my throat is healed, I will speak. I will tell everybody.

Wow. Go read this piece by Aubrey Hirsch, “Speaking from the Throat,” at The Summerset Review. It’s a gut-punch.

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March 5th, 2012
Childing, or Writinghood

A short piece on writing, on why.

dannygoodman.me:

I haven’t thought for some time about where my writing first began, when that spark ignited, but today for some reason, I cannot shake it…

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