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October 17, 2009
- Diary Cows by Ronald Koertge Got up early, waited for the farmer He hooked us all to the machines as usual. Typical trip to the pasture, typical day grazing and ruminating. About 5:00 back to the machines. What relief! Listened to the radio during dinner. Lights out at 7:00. More tomorrow. (many many thanks and deep bows to Ron Koertge for letting me use this.) ...
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June 20, 2009
- Recently, I finished editing the fiction section of a well-known literary magazine. I had a goal in mind---to mix traditional narrative with more experimental form. After a while--and especially after editing--I realized I was trying to follow what the late W.G. Sebald called “prose fiction”--i.e. fiction in which every word counts, fiction in which the writer doesn't spend time on ...
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May 16, 2009
- Well I've encountered my first issue with, dare I say, the novel, I wanted to say ''piece'' but instead I forced my fingers to form the word, novel, on the keyboard. Long cleansing breath follows. You see I've been avoiding it thus far, the dreaded dialogue and now feel obligated into having people actually say something to each other before I go any further. I know, dialogue moves the ...
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April 29, 2009
- Remainder, by TomMcCarthy, a British writer and artist, is a great reminder of how writing interacts with the world of art and its concern with space. Remainder, told in the first person, is a book about a man with amnesia who--as a result of an accident--gets over 8 million pounds as compensation on the condition that he never talk about it. He remembers nothing of his past. ...
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March 9, 2009
- Hey, I have a new story on the Narrative Magazine website called Night Dreams. Check it out at: www.Narrative Magazine.com
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February 28, 2009
- I want you to meet Emily. I wish you could meet Emily. I met her standing in line at the pharmacy counter at Walgreen's #3848, 3300 Center Street, Deer Park, Texas. It was a long line at the end of a long day. People weren't happy. We were all hurting; we were all sniveling. We wanted drugs, not the cheap plastic reading glasses or the bags of Goldfish dangling from metal clips next to us, ...
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January 22, 2009
- My aim in the poems is to catch the reader in an erotics of sound, story, and feeling; the web that stretches between the poles of lyric and narrative. I look for surprises, wait for images to leap up out of the quotidian, like fish breaking the surface of the poem at its ruptures of juxtaposition and metaphor. We read the world through the lens of the body, and I try to ride its hungers, ...
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January 21, 2009
- I subscribe to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day. Sometimes they're everyday words. Sometimes they're words I know but don't use often, and they'll trigger a "Good word, I should remember to use it once in a while." Sometimes I haven't heard of them, but I can figure them out (those years of Latin). Sometimes they're totally new. Those are the most fun, although it's not likely they'll ...
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January 5, 2009
- Well I feel pretty much guilty for not getting around to writing as much as before , but I thought instead of having so many unfinished pieces laying around in the computer i’d put them all in one blog and may be the comments I ’d get back would help me finish them off ... very sorry for the confusion : #1 Curiosity killed the cat “ Who do you think they are ???” I questioned ...
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January 3, 2009
- In a public relations campaign launched in the Palestinian Authority, the Hamas terror organization is claiming victory over Israel's withdrawal and promises to terrorize Haifa and Tel Aviv until Israel is defeated and Palestine restored to the Arabs. They are taking credit for the Israeli withdrawal, saying that Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip defeated by the "resistance," not as ...
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