December 2011
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The Twittering Author →
Click-through the above link for “The Twittering Author,” a little bit I wrote for The Lit Pub about poets who tweet (specifically, D.A. Powell and Arda Collins).
The particularity of a writer on Twitter: this is not People magazine’s best-dressed listor a dance competition, an improv comedy show or a submarine mission. These are words, the fodder and folly of writers and the element...
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A Review: You Deserve Nothing by Alexander Maksik
Big parts of this piece I made up. I didn’t want to say that, but the editors are making me, because of certain scandals in the past with made-up stories, and because they want to distance themselves from me. Fine.
— John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Violence of the Lambs”
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I purchased You Deserve Nothing a few days before the troublesome Jezebel story broke: it’s not fiction, it’s...
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“Say what you will, say even worse but, in truth, poetry is revolution without...”
– Frederic Tuten, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March
©Mark Iantosca From the December 4th marathon reading of Tuten’s novel.
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A Review: The Uninnocent by Bradford Morrow
It is difficult to read Biblical stories unattached, without religious sentiment—positive, negative, ambivalent—creeping in. But, Christian or not, they are stories and great ones. In college, I took a Religion class titled “The Genesis Narrative,” the name implying a kinship with my English Literature studies. In it, we studied the Book of Genesis as a text, a semester of Biblical...
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“When first learning to read, I hoarded words just as I would shells, nests,...”
– —Bradford Morrow, “The Hoarder”
Currently reading Morrow’s story collection, The Uninnocent (Pegasus, December 2011).
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Read and Repeat: Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups →
In which I recommend the lovely Lamberto, Lamberto, Lamberto by Gianni Rodari (Melville House, Dec. 2011) for The Lit Pub.
BONUS: Today only, the price of the book will begin at $9.30. For every ten tweets containing the hash tag #LambertoLambertoLamberto, the price will drop by a penny. Why? Because Melville House rocks. Tweeting begins at noon; track the price drop and buy the book at Lamberto...
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The Untraditional Love Story: Q by Evan Mandery...
What is fiction if not the language of possibility? An older man lusts after a girl and seduces her, possibly. A group of ghosts visit a miser and convince him to amend his ways, possibly. A wealthy young woman and the son of a servant fall in love and are betrayed, possibly. Similar to the “willing suspension of disbelief”—Samuel Coleridge’s notion, which contemporary culture now deems...
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