Carolyn Kellogg has joined the team of Jacket Copy, the LA Times book blog, where she adds to the insight of David L. Ulin and others. Check out her post comparing One Story to Ninth Letter, both great (and relatively new) journals. The LA Times also has a photo gallery of various books and bookshelves […]
Sorry for not posting on Sunday night/Monday morning, as is my custom. I was busied by academic and other forces beyond imagining. Or rather, few enjoy imagining them, so I won’t bore you with details. Anyhow, a few bits on rejection. I can’t help but like Literary Rejections on Display. I mean, it’s like the […]
The only time I’ll probably link to Entertainment Weekly — but this article on McSweeneyism is great for exposing the jealousy and idiocy of McSweeney bashers. Over at The Millions, it’s short story week, and so far they have one post on Deborah Eisenberg — as regular readers know, one of my favorite short story […]
So Alain Robbe-Grillet, the king of the French new novel, died on Monday at the age of 85. I find it just a little funny that back in October I wrote a piece linked to by The Guardian about Robbe-Grillet’s new novel, “Un Roman Sentimental.” The title: “And I Thought He Was Dead.” So now […]
Writing advice given in 1908 to short story writers. And good points made about how they were getting 3 to 5 cents a word back in the day when 3 to 5 cents could buy, say, about 100 times more than it could today. Advice on Short Story Publishers: But I wasn’t ready to give […]
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’ll mention The Christian Science Monitor has a review of a love anthology edited by Jeffrey Eugenides, the proceeds of which help out the Chicago 826 writing center of Dave Eggers. The title? My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead. No comment on that. As a huge fan of Jose Saramago, the […]
Habitus has a new (never before translated) interview with one of my favorite short story writers of all time: Jorge Luis Borges. The Literary Saloon points out that there’s a new collection of One Minute Stories (titled More One Minute Stories — brilliant, eh?) by Örkeny Istvan, for those of you interested in Flash Fiction […]
Over at Pinky’s Paperhaus, Carolyn Kellogg had the good fortune to receive quite a lengthy comment (actually, about six comments) from Raymond Carver’s first wife, Maryann Burk Carver, clarifying and arguing on several points. Quite a interesting read.
Sorry for the slow posting here this week — I’ve been swamped with other writing projects. Hope at least that the links from Monday kept everyone busy. As for today, go over to The Short Review, which is, as its name suggests, concerned only with short story collections, and also the host of my review […]
One-of-a-kind stories inserted into bottles. Speaking of stories in unique formats, check out this story by Gregory Norminton told in footnotes. As mentioned on Critical Mass, when the nominees for Oscars were announced, nothing was mentioned about the original source of the films. Nothing about “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” by Alice Munro which […]
