July 1st, 2010 / 10:36 am
 Author Spotlight & Contests

5 moth-beaten mumblings

14. Flash, prose, short thing? This is your last day to enter the Fineline contest.

2. There is a Gordon Lish Facebook page.

7. Ten best short story collections? Maybe…

5. Here is that David Foster Wallace piece about Federer you should read every year around Wimbledon.

1. Sexcast # 8: Interview/podcast with Roxana Shirazi, author of The last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage.

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13 Comments

  1. July 1st, 2010 / 11:28 am d—

      I like that short story collection list, except the exclusion of Kafka’s complete stories. It is the best.

  2. July 1st, 2010 / 2:13 pm HTMLGIANT / Don’t Do It for the Lagniappe—

      […] is going on here at this stupid htmlgiant website, any good fights? WAIT! Before you scroll down to Lovelace’s erupting hangnail or weigh in on Lily’s consideration of wtf is next with paper, just wait a sec. Let me catch […]

  3. July 1st, 2010 / 2:57 pm bambi a.—

      yes, thank you for #5

  4. July 1st, 2010 / 3:23 pm Dreezer—

      The short story collection list is heavy on science fiction and fabulation. For some reason, I had expected a roundup of quotidian realists, with maybe Faulkner or Flannery O’Connor dropped in for seasoning. So this is refreshing.

  5. July 1st, 2010 / 3:28 pm d—

      I like that short story collection list, except the exclusion of Kafka’s complete stories. It is the best.

  6. July 1st, 2010 / 4:08 pm Steven Augustine—

      Re: short collex: Italo Cosmicomics yes! But no Harlan Ellison? No Paul Bowles or Thom Jones? No foikin Flannery O? Also may I mention an anthology called DANGEROUS VISIONS which is still more radical, after 50 years, than most anything out there?

  7. July 1st, 2010 / 6:57 pm bambi a.—

      yes, thank you for #5

  8. July 1st, 2010 / 7:23 pm Dreezer—

      The short story collection list is heavy on science fiction and fabulation. For some reason, I had expected a roundup of quotidian realists, with maybe Faulkner or Flannery O’Connor dropped in for seasoning. So this is refreshing.

  9. July 1st, 2010 / 8:08 pm Steven Augustine—

      Re: short collex: Italo Cosmicomics yes! But no Harlan Ellison? No Paul Bowles or Thom Jones? No foikin Flannery O? Also may I mention an anthology called DANGEROUS VISIONS which is still more radical, after 50 years, than most anything out there?

  10. July 2nd, 2010 / 8:21 am davidk—

      I was really pleased to see Saki on that list. He’s more than a one hit wonder of high school lit textbooks.

  11. July 2nd, 2010 / 12:21 pm davidk—

      I was really pleased to see Saki on that list. He’s more than a one hit wonder of high school lit textbooks.

  12. July 4th, 2010 / 1:40 am mjm—

      so, 6 comments and no mention of the tennis photo?

      that photo is fucking hilarious.

  13. July 4th, 2010 / 5:40 am mjm—

      so, 6 comments and no mention of the tennis photo?

      that photo is fucking hilarious.