“Dining Room” from Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution (Coffee House, 2004): “Willie called his daughters into the dining room. He…
New Gary Lutz Interview!
A Gary Lutz interview is always an event, an event horizon, really, a boundary, too, beyond which a reader, like…
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…
The moment we’ve all been waiting for…
I Looked Alive By Gary Lutz Publisher: Black Square Editions/Brooklyn Rail PubDate: 10/1/2010 ISBN: 9781934029077 Binding: PAPERBACK Price: $17.00 Quantity…
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…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: On a Sentence from “My Final Best Feature,” by Gary Lutz
I was going to lay off those years for a change, but here were people in what might have been…
Writers Stew: Mangla vs. Gerke
Recently I sat down at my computer and had some exchanges with Ravi Mangla. Ravi lives Fairport, New York (near Rochester). His work…
Are You a Grammar, Usage, and Style Junkie?
Have you heard about Ammon Shea, the man who’d read all twenty volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary and then…
Scott Garson’s Best of 2009
1. Best stick-in-your-head line from an ’09 fiction: “The sky was a fucked puzzle,” from Blake Butler’s EVER. 2. Best…
Sage Advice from Gary Lutz
Check out a new interview with Gary Lutz at We Are Champion. An excerpt: One piece of advice would be…