[A guest post from Nathan Huffstutter. Nathan Huffstutter’s work can be found at The Nervous Breakdown, The Collagist, and…
Of A Monstrous Anthology
At AWP I spent 99% of my time at the Artistically Declined Press table at the bookfair. Two tables down…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
Amy Hempel’s ‘Offertory’
I’ve read about half of Hempel’s collected stories but none seem so seminal as this one. It’s one of her…
Amy Hempel’s answer – What’s yours?
As a writing teacher, and in the interest of all the aspiring writers reading this, what’s the most common mistake…
Over Forty Writers Over Forty to Watch
Writing the title of this post actually felt very silly; it seems such an arbitrary way of gathering a list…
On Amy Hempel’s “Greed”
I sat in the library today writing and reading. A rank odor would intermittently hit me, and I didn’t know…
Drawn and Quartered: On Gordon Lish’s The Quarterly, Part One
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.
More after the jump.