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P.L.F. on Ithaca, 1946 See Part 1 here. Already familiar as I was with the main events of Paddy’s military career, I asked him to fill in the gaps. What had ...
May 24, 2013 04:00 PM
Deeply tragic, deeply instructive. Via Dangerous Minds.
May 24, 2013 02:30 PM | 1 comments
Laurel Nakadate, Kalispell, Montana #1, 2013. I stayed up much too late finishing Shirley Jackson’s newly reissued Hangsaman—and then was so spooked it ...
May 24, 2013 12:19 PM | 1 comments
“Useless, useless.” —John Wilkes Booth Listen to James Salter read (Booker-winning!) Lydia Davis’s “Break It Down.” We sort of would have ...
May 24, 2013 09:45 AM
Sometimes there are things you didn’t know you wanted to see. Like Michael Douglas, spangled and rouged, arms out in a white ostrich-trimmed cape, prancing ...
May 23, 2013 03:11 PM | 1 comments
Herewith, a handy-dandy infographic that lays out the basic publishing options for an author. Via Jane Friedman. Click the image to access a zoomable ...
May 23, 2013 01:10 PM
Deborah Eisenberg and Mark Leyner on the art of fiction.
Fiction from David Gates, Ottessa Moshfegh, Mark Leyner, and more.
Poems by Stephen Dunn, Ange Mlinko, and Frederick Seidel.
Nonfiction by David Searcy and Vivian Gornick.
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“Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.”