[A guest post from Nathan Huffstutter. Nathan Huffstutter's work can be found at The Nervous Breakdown, The Collagist, and Emprise Review.] Most of what I know I picked up on my feet. Restaurant work: dish pits and service patterns and then back behind the bar, where pretty much everything goes. “You need to put something [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Amy Hempel’
Of A Monstrous Anthology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Brian Evenson, James Harris, Lost Horse Press, Nate Liederbach, Of A Monstrous Child, Rick Moody, Robert Wrigley, Ryan Boudinot, Zachary Schomburg. on March 8, 2011 | 10 Comments »
At AWP I spent 99% of my time at the Artistically Declined Press table at the bookfair. Two tables down from me was the Lost Horse Press table. Lost Horse is one of my favorite presses. Their books are beautiful and they have published some of my favorite people and poets. Anyway, I became friendly, [...]
Amy Hempel’s ‘Offertory’
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Gary Lutz on September 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I’ve read about half of Hempel’s collected stories but none seem so seminal as this one. It’s one of her longer stories, 34 pages, and it hums along quite confidently after this wonderfully evocative and lyrical opening paragraph: We did it twelve times–made love, all of us, to one another twelve times, the two of [...]
Amy Hempel’s answer – What’s yours?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Aquafina on June 29, 2010 | 27 Comments »
As a writing teacher, and in the interest of all the aspiring writers reading this, what’s the most common mistake young, fresh writers make? AH: This is the young writer mistake question: Wanting to publish more than wanting to write well. Complete Interview
On Amy Hempel’s “Greed”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Greed, Mrs. Mean, William Gass on May 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I sat in the library today writing and reading. A rank odor would intermittently hit me, and I didn’t know the source until I had observed a man raise and lower one and the other and then both of his armpits. This was certainly not conducive to uninterrupted work. In spite of this, I did [...]
Drawn and Quartered: On Gordon Lish’s The Quarterly, Part One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel, Diane DeSanders, Janet Kauffman, Pamela Schirmeister, Patty Marx, Peter Christopher, Robert Jones, Ansie Baird, Dan Duffy, J.S. Marcus, Jack Gilbert, James Laughlin, John Allman, Matthew Levine, William Freedman, Chris Spain, Darrell Spencer, Don Nace, E.J. Cullen, Gordon Lish, Harold Brodkey, Harvey Shapiro, Jane Smiley, Kaye Gibbons, Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, The Quarterly, Tom Rayfiel, Tom Spanbauer, Yannick Murphy on October 19, 2009 | 9 Comments »
What follows is a blow-by-blow account of the first issue of Gordon Lish’s legendary literary journal The Quarterly. Here I’ll examine stories by Amy Hempel, Tom Spanbauer, Matthew Levine, Chris Spain, Pamela Schirmeister, Yannick Murphy, J.S. Marcus, Darrell Spencer, Kaye Gibbons, Peter Christopher, Janet Kauffman, and Tom Rayfiel; a novella by Jane Smiley; poems by Paulette Jiles, Robert Gibb, John Allman, William Freedman, Jack Gilbert, Ansie Baird, Diane DeSanders, and Harvey Shapiro; and letters by Nancy Lemann, Pagan Kennedy, Harold Brodkey, James Laughlin, Amy Hempel, Patty Marx, Robert Jones, E.J. Cullen, and Dan Duffy; and drawings by Don Nace. I hope to eventually cover every single issue of this incredible journal.
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Tim Jones-Yelvington
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Rachel Swirsky
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Edward Mullany
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Aya Karpinska
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Paul Kincaid
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davis schneiderman
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Amber Sparks
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Tim Horvath
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John Domini
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Elaine Castillo
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Curtis White
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Paula Bomer
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James Tadd Adcox
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Nick Francis Potter
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Brian Kubarycz
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Gabriel Blackwell
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Janey Smith
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Matty Byloos
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J/J Hastain
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Greg Hunter
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Jeff Bursey
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Paul Griffin
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Chris Lites
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