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December 8, 2025 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

The Room Without Dreams, by Lance Olsen

  In ten hours, the surgical resident Syd’s day at the hospital will be behind her and she will meet…

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October 22, 2024October 25, 2025 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

Cuddly Doll Caught on Barbed Wire, by Lance Olsen

  Henry Darger is from Brazil!   You from time to time shouting at David.   David Berglund.   The…

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April 5, 2024October 12, 2025 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

Absolute Away, by Lance Olsen

  THE GREAT SLUR   The next day, a new order of strangeness, The Great Slur, broke out across the…

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November 30, 2022October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

(Trans)Forms as Philosophy, by Lance Olsen

  Let me begin with a quote: The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands…

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December 7, 2021August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Always Crashing in the Same Car, by Lance Olsen

  OH YOU PRETTY THINGS Humming something that came to him in red dreams, he considers, mid-shave, this man suddenly…

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October 14, 2021August 29, 2023 - Birthday, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Lance Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling”

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published last year and is included in…

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February 23, 2021October 22, 2025 - Archives, Books, Nonfiction, Reading, Writing

He Can’t Remember, He’s No Longer Sure, Maybe

By Lance Olsen   I don’t remember much about the particular circumstances surrounding my stumbling upon Robert Coover’s Pricksongs &…

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October 14, 2020August 29, 2023 - Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Lance Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling”

Happy birthday, Lance Olsen! Celebrate by reading Olsen’s “Beautiful Boy Falling” (which we published earlier this year) and “169 Tweets…

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May 5, 2020August 28, 2023 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Beautiful Boy Falling, by Lance Olsen

  You were there, only nobody saw you. This is what you are good at: not being there when you…

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April 15, 2019March 15, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

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