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Writing Novels Is Simple, If You Like Simple Novels
A new writer recently protested while writing his first novel that he frequently felt disgusted and incompetent.
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Waiting for Godot, but Not Barney Rosset
From Notebook, a magazine of film culture, is an obituary for Barney Rosset, ground-breaking leader in American publishing. He fed us Beckett, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, and I Am Curious (Yellow)...
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Vanessa Veselka on the Adventure of First-Person Narrative
I’ve switched the points of view of my two latest novels to first person, because it works to bring out the personalities of the main characters. Vanessa Veselka has some good ideas about this and she...
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Tiny whoop. Faulkner Award semi-finalist.
My novel, Tardy Son, is a semi-finalist for the Faulkner Novel-in-Progress Award. Tiny whoop.
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Kimberly Elkins’ story, “The Awful Wondering” is published.
Iowa Review: Kimberly Elkins' story, "The Awful Wondering" is published.
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From Treasure Island, by Robert Lewis Stephenson
From Treasure Island, by Robert Lewis Stephenson
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How Bravery Failed in Hemingway and Fitzgerald
How Bravery Failed in Hemingway and Fitzgerald
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Papa Fires My Flight, a poem from Amity
Papa Fires My Flight Why we flee Cambridge could kill us, yet a buggy ride in a storm could kill us. I shiver my bosom on his arm in the rain, glad to flee the rage of my father’s church, fired from...
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Warm In A Manger, a poem in the dark
Warm In A Manger A stream of puddles leads to a barn— in a Salem nor’easter any roof is heaven. I take off my wet dress. Austin turns away: “Like many vacant farms north of Boston” (Vacant skin begs...
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Page Kiss, a poem from Amity
Page Kiss At the pond he’s still as a crane, reads a book of red leather fine as a Bible from a white man’s church. Why does that story roll his eyes? He turns. Does he feel my stare? He doesn’t...
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Arms of Dreams, a secret poem
Arms of Dreams His finger can feel the nibble of a fish through the ink in a story about fishing printed in a book 100 years ago while he reads and pretends to fish our pond, but do his arms hold a...
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Devotional Howl, a soft poem
Devotional Howl It’s not important how I feel in moments of caring touch: hand in hand, tongue to tongue. It’s not important how I feel when the warmth of your voice dies. I write poems to remember you...
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How Bravery Failed in Hemingway and Fitzgerald
How Bravery Failed in Hemingway and Fitzgerald
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Writing Novels Is Simple, If You Like Simple Novels
A new writer recently protested while writing his first novel that he frequently felt disgusted and incompetent.
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Waiting for Godot, but Not Barney Rosset
From Notebook, a magazine of film culture, is an obituary for Barney Rosset, ground-breaking leader in American publishing. He fed us Beckett, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, and I Am Curious (Yellow)...
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