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November 30, 2022December 28, 2022 - Books, Featured, 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, 2021January 12, 2023 - 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, 2021October 15, 2021 - Archives, 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, 2021February 23, 2021 - 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, 2020 - Archives, 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, 2020December 7, 2021 - 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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March 4, 2019May 12, 2019 - Nonfiction, Writing

169 Tweets on the Nature of Possibility, by Lance Olsen

Follow most fiction-writing handbooks, and you’ll produce a well-crafted narrative that could have been produce just as easily in 1830.…

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July 30, 2012March 3, 2019 - Books, Reading, Uncategorized

Lance Olsen’s “Literary Pillars”

1. Petronius, Satyricon (1st century A.D.) 2. Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, 1616). 3. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67) 4. Mary…

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May 5, 2010March 3, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Lance Olsen

  RHETORIC   The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do…

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