Alexis Orgera—
Coldfront has posted their Year in Review 2009 ranking all things poetical, or not. Best ranking categories: Best Opening and Closing Lines in a Collection. Best Cover. And Dean Young’s 31 Poems (Forklift, Ink) got a nod in the Best Selected/Collected category (the book DOES rock) and the Best Physical Artifact category (while looking like a million bucks).
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Blake Butler—
New Stephen Dixon story ‘Wife In Reverse,’ written at the same time as his unpublished new novel, His Wife Leaves Him, is at Matchbook, “The story originated as a compressed, reverse version of the novel, though it didn’t turn out exactly that way.”
Collaboratively Written Short Stories?
Got an email from Dave Madden — who has an awesome book called The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press, and who also co-edits The Cupboard — requesting some suggestions that I thought y’all might be able to help out with:
I’m thinking of teaching [collaboratively written short stories] in my workshop one week, and am looking for some things to read. Any ideas of any, and feel free to define “short story” loosely. Fiction, though. Prose.
My brain has frozen. Can you think of any examples?
This is such a blog post
I forgot that when I get really tired and I’m at work it’s good to write a long blog post that doesn’t make any sense and doesn’t really say anything. READ MORE >
Diagram 9.6 is here.
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January 7th, 2010 / 3:37 pm
January 7th, 2010 / 3:37 pm
I do not count my borrowings, I weigh them. And if I had wanted to have them valued by their number, I should have loaded myself with twice as many.
– Montaigne, “Of Books”
quoted in Where Shall Wisdom be Found? by Harold Bloom
HTMLG Secret Santa: What Did You Get?
I conducted a very scientific Secret Santa survey, and out of three people polled, only one person got a gift from their HTMLG Secret Santa, yet all three sent gifts. I was one of the people I polled, and I was NOT the person who got a gift. I want my gift! Also, this poll conclusively indicates that only 66 2/3% of Santas sent gifts. It’s not too late. Your recipient will still appreciate a gift, even now! I know that because 2 out of 2 people who did not get a gift yet said so. You will still be loved and praised despite your (forgivable) tardiness.
But for those who did receive a gift, what did you get? Tell me how excited you are! I need that right now.
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January 7th, 2010 / 11:42 am
January 7th, 2010 / 11:42 am
REASONS YOU SHOULD NOT DATE WRITERS (IF YOU ARE A WRITER)
not a writer
1. Writing is not mysterious to them, so they will not romanticize, mythologize, or idealize what you do.