I turned on comment moderation last night–for no other reason than I am going to be gone off and on over the summer, sometimes with limited internet access and so I didn’t want there to be any hanky-panky going on while I wasn’t here to monitor. Also, if anyone posted anything in comments and then had second thoughts, I didn’t want them to be … Read More something new
Got this info from Utahna Faith and so am passing it on–sounds like a great contest: Wild Strawberries: a journal of flash fiction and prose poetry is running a contest. We are looking for the best flash fiction story or prose poem about an animal or animals left behind and living in New Orleans after the flood. We are a small press print publication, … Read More Wild Strawberries Contest
If you like history, and strong, intelligent women, you will likely find Empress by Shan Sa a fascinating book. Empress is the story of Heavenlight, or as she later becomes known, Empress Wu, China’s first and only female emporer, who ruled during some of the most golden years of the Tang Dynasty. A commoner, Heavenlight is raised humbly but it does not take long … Read More Empress, by Shan Sa
These were dreaded words in the rural community where I grew up. You never, ever wanted to hear that everyone on your bus was called to the nurse’s office, because this meant one of two things–either someone had lice or someone had scabies (or ringworm–forgot about that one). Luckily, my bus was never, ever called to the nurse’s office. I left school free from … Read More Everyone on bus 64, please report to the nurse’s office!
That’s right–Another Bite of the Apple–the highly-anticipated sequel to Robin‘s excellent Three Days in New York City is now available for purchase. To give you a taste, here’s an excerpt.
In order to reach new heights with my inanety, I would like to take this opportunity to debunk a few myths that I, in the naivete of my youth, took as fact. 1) If you pop a zit in the T-zone, you will die an immediate, painful death: I remember seeing a movie in health class about acne or puberty or some mixture of … Read More Life in the T-Zone
Just finished reading the interesting nerve.com interview with John Updike, which offered such gems as this: What Freud had proclaimed was that happiness relates to sex. If your sex is good, you are good. If it’s not, you’re not. That kind of sexual fulfillment was very hard to attain. And even once you attain it, it tends to leak away, so there’s a constant … Read More "there’s a constant fever of human unhappiness that characterizes our condition."
Newpages has a cool new feature called Literary News, which features new print lit mags received, new online lit mags posted, and news & announcements from Lit Blogs and the the Web. One of the news items listed was not new to me, but is still exciting nonetheless: CMU FACULTY MEMBER RECEIVES DISTINGUISHED LITERARY AWARD (Way to go, Kim Chinquee!)
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1) This week’s fruit selection is watermelon. I bought a hunk of it at the store (I just cannot handle a whole watermelon. It takes up too much fridge space and is just to fucking unweildy) and just now used my melon baller (you must get yourself one of these) to carve it up into balls. Tasty! I gave Allen a small dish of … Read More reflections on watermelon, superimposed flesh, and rain
Hiya. Someone posted on one of my old posts looking for more information on my experiences at Squaw Valley. Here’s my wrap up from the past two years: 2004 in a nutshell 2005 setting 2005 workshop 2005 readings and panels 2005 one-on-one 2005 people And just in general let me say that, YES the altitude can really fuck you up if you are not … Read More Squaw Valley Community of Writers–info from previous years
We are lucky ones today. Here is creative nonfiction from two talented women I am lucky enough to call friend: What Would You Have Me Do? by Pia Z. Ehrhardt & Empathy, by Patricia Parkinson
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