November 28, 2007
My Favorite Runners.
Story Quarterly Contest.
Last call. It's winding down and the prize money's great.
Clickable:
You Try and Choose.
Pop Up Books.
Container Houses.
Could you live in this?
Note to Asian man at the end of the video: If you put water into a city, it becomes the city.
Note to Asian man at the end of the video: If you put water into a city, it becomes the city.
Happy Bridesmaid.
I just heard from my Pushcart 2008 winning friend that my story, A Man, got an honorable mention back in the back of the book. It published in Spork. I love Spork. Where is Spork?
November 27, 2007
What Matters?
Why, PopMatters. Feel free to leave a comment so the ticker doesn't stay stuck on poor 0.
Southern Writers Reading
Cormac's dad, Sonny Brewer knows how to bring good people together in one of the prettiest towns going, Fairhope, Alabama.
Poet Beth Ann Fennelly in kick ass red boots.
Me and journalist/author/force of nature Karen Spears Zacharias and Malcolm.
Writer/Memoirist Doug Crandell
Karen Zacharias Spears and photographer Amy Dickerson
Poet Beth Ann Fennelly in kick ass red boots.
Me and journalist/author/force of nature Karen Spears Zacharias and Malcolm.
Writer/Memoirist Doug Crandell
Karen Zacharias Spears and photographer Amy Dickerson
November 10, 2007
Rest.
Norman Mailer died this morning at 4:30 a.m. while I slept.
"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit," he once said.
"Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit," he once said.
Mr. Toledano.
That's who took the photo below.
Al Songs Considered.
Bookmark NPR's new site for this wonderful show. As I type this, I'm listening to a mesmerizing song that Stephin Merritt wrote for the show in two days, called Man of a Million Faces.
November 07, 2007
Grizzly Bear.
Friend 4-ever until the next band comes along.
A Hard Shove.
That's what Richard Ford gives us (I hope) when he writes about the state of the short story:
"Short stories by nature are daring little instruments and almost always represent commensurate daring in their makers. For one thing, short stories want to give us something big but want to do it in precious little time and space. For another, they succeed by wilfully falsifying many of the observable qualities of the lived life they draw upon. They also leave out a lot of life and try to make us not worry about it. They often do funny things with time - things we know can't be done, really - but then make us go along with that. They persuade us that the human-being-like characters they show us can be significantly known on the strength of rather slight exposure; and they make us believe that entire lives can change on account of one little manufactured moment of clear-sightedness. You could say, based on this evidence, that the most fundamental character trait of short stories, other than their shortness, would seem to be audacity. More than even the sestina, short stories are the high-wire act of literature, the man keeping all those pretty plates up and spinning on skinny sticks." keep reading.
This makes me want to run to my desk and write a new one.
"Short stories by nature are daring little instruments and almost always represent commensurate daring in their makers. For one thing, short stories want to give us something big but want to do it in precious little time and space. For another, they succeed by wilfully falsifying many of the observable qualities of the lived life they draw upon. They also leave out a lot of life and try to make us not worry about it. They often do funny things with time - things we know can't be done, really - but then make us go along with that. They persuade us that the human-being-like characters they show us can be significantly known on the strength of rather slight exposure; and they make us believe that entire lives can change on account of one little manufactured moment of clear-sightedness. You could say, based on this evidence, that the most fundamental character trait of short stories, other than their shortness, would seem to be audacity. More than even the sestina, short stories are the high-wire act of literature, the man keeping all those pretty plates up and spinning on skinny sticks." keep reading.
This makes me want to run to my desk and write a new one.
Happiness is
being interviewed by giant-hearted Susan Henderson on LitPark. I feel like my lungs just got filled with cool, clean air and I'm breathing deeply again.
Family Travel.
Reading LitPark's reponses to Sue's travel question got me looking through a scrapbook my mother painstakingly put together for my 50th birthday. We lived in Italy in 60s.
November 06, 2007
Carrying the Remains.
Darlin Neal's edited a fine feathered edition of Mississippi Review under the heading of "The Hyperextended Family."
From her Introduction: "If the writers here have redefined family they have done so by defining it as being full of secret passages, as being without boundaries, as stretching from critically ill children in Africa to birds nursed back to life and flying away to brilliant teachers leaving indelible impressions to little girls playing Barbie and longing for home to chickens guarding hippie communes and leaning in for a whiff."
Go Fish.
I mean, go read Kathy Fish's interview on Quick Fiction with Kelly Spitzer. Kath is one of my favorite writers, more gifted than I think she knows, although maybe she's catching on after publishing 80 flashes over the last couple of years? Rose Metal Press will publish a chapbook of her short works.
From her interview: "I realized in compiling these stories, how obsessed I am with childhood and adolescence, the painful aspects of these, and also, with siblings who create their own subculture within troubled families. All that very obviously stems from my own childhood, growing up in a huge family. I have no sisters and two stories in the collection, "Shoebox" and "The Hollow," involve a strange life that two sisters share. I guess I?m using fiction to explore something I really have no experience with, but have always wanted."
From her interview: "I realized in compiling these stories, how obsessed I am with childhood and adolescence, the painful aspects of these, and also, with siblings who create their own subculture within troubled families. All that very obviously stems from my own childhood, growing up in a huge family. I have no sisters and two stories in the collection, "Shoebox" and "The Hollow," involve a strange life that two sisters share. I guess I?m using fiction to explore something I really have no experience with, but have always wanted."
November 02, 2007
TOW Books.
Enjoy TOW Books publisher, John Warner, weighing in on his top five funniest novels, and then enjoy the lively posts of Lit Park's readers as they add their own. You'll want a pad and pencil close by what with Christmas-listing around the corner and all.
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Another Sweet Holiday Gift Idea.
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A request for Jim Shepard.
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Pia's Nifty Gift Ideas.
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My Favorite Runners.
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Story Quarterly Contest.
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Clickable:
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You Try and Choose.
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Pop Up Books.
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Container Houses.
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