Hot Pot, Contest Winners and Inklings–new from Ink Pot
New from Ink Pot: * winners of the CNF Contest (congratulations to all!) * Cold Green Cadillac, Creative Nonfiction by Peter Brown Hoffmeister * inklings by Kathleen McCall
New from Ink Pot: * winners of the CNF Contest (congratulations to all!) * Cold Green Cadillac, Creative Nonfiction by Peter Brown Hoffmeister * inklings by Kathleen McCall
Allen read this story to me from the paper this morning: For conservatives, ‘Merry Christmas’ becomes a cause and hearing it has left me enraged. If these folks are truly serious about “trying to put more Christ into Christmas this season” then they should quit shopping and just go sit in a church or something and leave the rest of us the fuck alone. … Read More stop shopping then!
Don’t miss the new Smokelong Quarterly with stories by Randall Brown, Marcia Lynx Qualey, Gary Cadwallader, Paul A. Toth, Rusty Barnes, Bob Thurber, David H.S. Hubert and many more. Also, make sure you catch the interviews at the end of each story–they are not to be missed.
I have another story today: Warsaw p.p.s. thanks for reading. p.p.p.p.p.s.s.s.s. these two stories that are live today might make it seem as though I find travel unpleasant. actually, I enjoy it. But there are those moments…
Sven Birkerts’ beautiful post-election essay Scratch takes that odd mull of emotions so many of us have been feeling: The anxious fear that I can’t get said what I need to, that I’m no longer clear about where we’re going, and that even if I did know, my words would do no good at all. Not just my words, but words in general. I … Read More scratch
20 questions. Then post and tell me whether you won or lost. I won but we differed on some of my answers.
Ellen Meister is one of my favorite writers. Here are a couple of her recent stories: Womb-O-Matic & Alone With Cooper.
oh man! I just love him anyway but when he gave Larry King shit for saying “bailiwick” I thought I was going to lose it. Jon Stewart for president!
hellooooo I’m writing this from a hotel in Paramus, New Jersey. You’re jealous,r i g h t??? Okay, so I’ll be back home and more inclined to post stuff tomorrow night or Friday morning. Anyway, sorry to be lame but I’ve been typing non-stop (seriously) all day. And thanks. And sorry. Okay. Good night!