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February 3, 2010October 17, 2017 - Uncategorized

Black Family by the Sea: a Note on Interpretation and Race

Below is a photograph by William Eggleston that I saw on the cover of a book called ‘How to Read…

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February 3, 2010 - Uncategorized

Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle

Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts…

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February 3, 2010 - Uncategorized

Not Asking Questions

I am in the throes of a new story. And it’s been the most patient I’ve been with a story…

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February 3, 2010February 3, 2010 - Uncategorized

Selah Saterstrom’s THE PINK INSTITUTION

I can’t thank Mathias Svalina enough for introducing me to Selah Saterstrom. Her first novel, The Pink Institution (Coffee House…

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February 3, 2010February 3, 2010 - Uncategorized

Anatomy of a Flash – Jimmy Chen (Guest post by Keith Nathan Brown)

Jimmy Chen is a writer.  His flash fiction, “Footnote1,” engages the mental sphere, tolls the emotional chamber, and continues to…

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February 3, 2010 - Uncategorized

I love Joanna Ruocco

I went to school with a writer named Joanna Ruocco whose facility with language made me nervous and envious and…

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February 3, 2010February 3, 2010 - Uncategorized

Big Other Reading Series, #5

Mel Bosworth reads an excerpt from Sasha Fletcher’s forthcoming novella WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED MARCHING BANDS WILL FILL…

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