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The Book of Laney
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Here’s a great review of Ellen Meister‘s book: Per Contra Review I had the pleasure of hearing Linera Lucas read Police Story at Tin House.
seen
Here’s what I’ve watched recently: Transamerica: Loved it. Felicity Huffman was superb and the story heartbreaking, heartwarming, funny, poignant. At the end, I worried how things would work out between Bree and her son–I hoped he was not beyond hope. Junebug: This movie was outstanding. All of the characters were great and real, but Amy Adams was completely captivating. What I loved most about … Read More seen
Things Kept, Things Left Behind, by Jim Tomlinson
It’s always a treat to read the year’s Iowa Short Fiction Award winner–and this year it was doubly so as this year’s winner–Things Kept, Things Left Behind–was written by the kind and talented, Jim Tomlinson. What a thrill it was to see Flights, which appeared in the issue of SmokeLong Quarterly for which I was guest editor, as part of the collection. Each of … Read More Things Kept, Things Left Behind, by Jim Tomlinson
Flappers and Philosophers
I am still making my way through the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I finished Flappers and Philosophers the other day, which I enjoyed. My favorite stories (and they are the most well-known from it as well) are “The Ice Palace,” “Bernice Bobs her Hair,” and “Benediction”–all featuring young women at a certain cross-roads in her life. Fitzgerald made quite a good living selling … Read More Flappers and Philosophers
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five years
Five years ago, we woke up in a campground on Dungeness Spit on the Olympic Penninsula in Washington State. The day before we had come through the Strait of Juan de Fuca on a ferry from Vancouver Island. That night we ate some famous Dungeness crab at a small restaurant. The waitress told Allen that the locals eat it cold and so that’s what … Read More five years
out of the closet
I’m coming out of the closet–I love Rock Star: Supernova! There. I’ve said it. I loved last year’s INXS version, too. It’s good TV, people! Anyway, I’m bummed that Storm got kicked off last night. Here’s her original song:
ArtRoots–September 23rd–be there
If you are in the area of Lowell, MA, on September 23rd, you might want to mark your calendar to attend ArtRoots sponsored by the one and only Middlesex Beat. You can purchase tickets here.
The Ice Queen, by Alice Hoffman
The narrator of Alice Hoffman’s The Ice Queen, prefers the bleaker Grimm’s to the more hopeful Anderson’s fairy tales. Perhaps this is because she paints her life bleakly and without hope. Utlimately, what she finds is that life need not be black and white and painful to have meaning; that there can be color, and butterflies, and hope. The narrator and her brother have … Read More The Ice Queen, by Alice Hoffman
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Check out Jason Hughes’s Cleanly Doors over at the always interesting Baltimore Interview.
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Not only is it Kathy Fish’s birthday today but there’s also a new story live by her in Per Contra. Read it and love it here: Hypergraphia
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