This post features lists by four excellent writers: Chris Heavener, Lance Olsen, Bradley Sands, and William Walsh. And when you get a chance, check out part one, part two, part three, and part 4. of “Best of 2010.”
Posts Tagged ‘Chris Heavener’
Best of 2010, Part 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best of 2010, Big Other, Bradley Sands, Chris Heavener, John Madera, Lance Olsen, William Walsh on January 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Guest Post: Chris Heavener: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Lonesome, Chris Heavener, Jim Ruland, The Eggman on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Dim eyes down the length of the bar swivel in our direction, the ripple effect of their cattle-prodded curiosity is like an old television warming up, weird distortions yielding to something banal and dull.” –From the story “The Eggman,” by Jim Ruland.
On an “alleged ‘story’,” that “wreaks of poetry”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Afton Carraway, Annalemma, Chris Heavener on April 15, 2010 | 9 Comments »
A mini-discussion about poetry and fiction transpired at Annalemma. Afton Carraway asserts that a story, ”Illusions [N2],” featured in the latest edition of Annalemma, is, because its “[l]iterary devices, rythms [sic], cadence,” and its lack of plot, really a poem; and that “all it is missing is lines and stanzas and, in fact, all you have [...]