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Tag Archives: fiction
A Thanksgiving Story
A Thanksgiving Story There was this kid in high school named Carlos, a year younger than me, a little pudgy and a little foul-mouthed sometimes and not really a close friend except the way everyone of approximately the same age … Continue reading
Posted in creative nonfiction
Tagged autobiography, cnf, creative nonfiction, fiction, memoir, nonfiction
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The Fine Fifteen: Novels
[cc image by Caro’s Lines] Slightly modified from a meme I was “tagged” for: take 15 minutes (no more!) to list, in no particular order, 15 books (in this case novels) that have most intensely “stuck with you.” No Googling, … Continue reading
Reading log: Flash Fiction Forward (ed James Thomas & Robert Shapard)
The stories in Flash Fiction Forward can generally be divided into a few basic categories: miniaturized conventional stories absurdist stories along the lines of James Tate or Russell Edson’s prose poems (the former is represented here) extended prose poems clever … Continue reading
Reading Log: Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
I can’t say enough about this collection. Borges was a master at weaving compelling, Escher-like verbal tapestries with threads of obsessions I’ve grown to share in: time, memory, eternity, infinity, fiction and evocation and vocation… the least of these stories … Continue reading
Booklog: The Tears of Autumn (Charles McCarry)
It turns out Charles McCarry was one of the best spy novelists I’d never heard of. After too many recommendations from those in the know, I finally picked up the earliest locally available example of his work– The Tears of … Continue reading
Posted in Art & Life & Politics
Tagged 999 challenge, booklog, charles mccarry, espionage, fiction, novels
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on The Difficulty of Writing (Marilynne Robinson)
The difficulty of it [writing] cannot be overstated. But at its best, it involves a state of concentration that is a satisfying experience, no matter how difficult or frustrating. The sense of being focused like that is a marvelous feeling. … Continue reading
Posted in Commonplace Book
Tagged cpb, fiction, marilynne robinson, writers on writing
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from Candide (Voltaire)
Pangloss was professor of metaphysico-theologico-cosmolo-nigology. He proved admirably that there is no effect without a cause, and that, in this best of all possible worlds, the Baron’s castle was the most magnificent of castles, and his lady the best of … Continue reading
View from the Seventh Layer (Kevin Brockmeier)
[isbn: 0375425306] Referring to stories as ‘clever’ is often shorthand for "interesting but ultimately shallow," while ‘inventive’ often means "very creative, but not a great piece of art." In both cases the admirable qualities are undercut by a lack of … Continue reading
Good People (David Foster Wallace)
David Foster Wallace has a new story in the New Yorker…
Tagged dfw, fiction, short fiction
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Reading Proust – 1
A week or so ago I signed up as a member of a small group of bloggers reading Proust. Since then I have been making my very slow way through Swann’s Way (yep, the $8.95 cheap-ass bastard edition– after spot-comparing … Continue reading
Tagged fiction, memory, proust, reading log
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Death of the Short Story (not)
Eric Rosenfield thinks the short story is dead and then points to a dissection of the Best American Short Stories as proof!? BAS hasn’t been representative of the most vital aspects of the short story for decades (if ever). It, … Continue reading
Tagged anthologies, fiction, poetics, poetry, Publishing, short fiction
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