Before I say anything else, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Chris Newgent for all of the…
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Amber Sparks already wrote a fantastic and comprehensive review of Joseph Riippi’s The Orange Suitcase for Big Other, which you…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: An Anthology, of Sorts
A few months ago, in April, to be exact, I started a series of posts entitled “A Sentence About a…
Buffalo ArtVoice Flash Fiction Archive
There’s been some new pieces lately so I wanted to refresh this. Mark Doten “The Spider and Salt Hearts: A…
A Sampler of First Lines from Best of the Web 2010
Nola is splayed on the wooden floor, her skirt hiked up high above her knees, playing jacks. My son’s first-grade…
Matt Bell at Everyday Genius
We all know that Matt Bell, Lily Hoang, Michael Kimball, and Adam Robinson are all great writers, editors, and idea…
A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Matt Bell
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Partial Thoughts for a Partial Wolf
I received my copy of Matt Bell’s Wolf Parts yesterday. Read it last night. It made me want to say…
storySouth’s 7th Annual Million Writers Award
Honoring online literature since 2004 with the Million Writers Award, Jason Sanford’s storySouth is open for 2010 nominations from editors…
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I’ve read over 120 books in 2009, and by the time the year is up I’ll have reviewed over fifty.…