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Entries from July 22nd, 2010

The Drum calling for submissions

July 22nd, 2010 No Comments

Guidelines. From the FAQ: –Will I be able to create another recording of this piece for another website, podcast, or other form of distribution? Absolutely. You’ll retain all rights to your work except the rights to the particular recording of it that will appear in The Drum. –Will I be able to publish my piece [...]

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July 22nd, 2010 No Comments

Quick heads-up: Tonight at 7, Richard Russo will read his nonfiction piece from Granta 111 at Porter Square Books. Incidentally, Granta has posted a link to a Bruce Chatwin story from their first travel writing issue (#10, Winter 1983) on their homepage.

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“American fiction is good.”

July 17th, 2010 No Comments

“It would be nice if somebody read it.” –Gary Shteyngart

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“…and the space of the dash remains over the final ashes.”

July 15th, 2010 No Comments

In 2008, Pablo Medina and Mark Statman published a new translation of Poet in New York by Frederico Garcia Lorca. Ashbery called it “the definitive version…alive and molten”– In the introduction, Medina/Statman write, “Seventy years [after Lorca arrived in New York], those of us who had seen the twin towers of the World Trade Center [...]

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Recently…

July 12th, 2010 No Comments

…Brooks Sterritt appeared in Gigantic. …PANK opened pre-orders for Our Island of Epidemics by Matt Salesses. …Katherine Meehan and Graham Trail began a lit mag, The Ear Hustler, and are ravenous for fruits of your labor. …Meeting House published “Neyon” by David Snyder.

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Segregation for Unicorns

July 7th, 2010 9 Comments

During a conference with one of my writing professors to discuss one of my short stories, my professor said to me, “You know, you should write more black stories like this, it’s very in right now.” The story in question had no reference or markers to the character’s race.  I can only assume that she [...]

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Review of Hank Williams by Peter Berghoef

July 2nd, 2010 No Comments

What Greying Ghost Press sent me, in the order I removed it (as best I can remember) from a manilla envelope, a few days after I ordered Peter Berghoef’s[1] enveloped pamphlet Hank Williams, containing the poem “Hank Williams”[2]: 1. Page from LIFE magazine’s 22 April 1940 article about NYC’s then-District Attorney and Republican presidential hopeful, [...]

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