Thaisa Frank's Blog

• Many Ways to Live to be 100 and Write

  November 7, 2009

  • here's a refreshing article about the work habits of published writers--all different(these are novelists, so a lot of them do research; but the various work styles apply to poets and writers of shorter fiction)  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513463106012106.html 
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• More Surrealism--Times Review of Memories of the Future by the Russian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

  October 24, 2009

  • In relation to the blog below, see the review of MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE in the NYTimes this Sunday. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?_r=1&ref=review Another writer who blurred the lines between sleeping and waking, nightmare and reality.Deep down, this kind of writing, raises a profound human question: What is it to be fully awake? and What is it to dream? ...
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• The Short Short Story Revived

  October 24, 2009

  • Flash fiction, or the short short story, has always had an intimate relationship with surrealism, and literature of the absurd.  It is a short, urgent letter that can convey urgent messages, partly through omission.   That these slightly tilted, less conventional forms of fiction are returning is evidenced by James Wood's article in The New Yorker about short-short story writer and prose poet, ...
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