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This Week’s Reading, 8.4.12
Sunday, April 8th, 2012Tags: austin osman spare, blood, blood painting, carl kohler, conium review, corrine de winter, David Foster Wallace, don delillo, doris lessing, edible books, fuck you, japan, japan tsunami, jordan eagles, painting, revolution house, robert pirosh, shoulda known better, smokable books, snoop dogg, the golden notebook, the golden notebook turns 50, this week's reading
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The Golden Age of Short Fiction
Friday, March 23rd, 2012All writers, whether they be poets, short fiction authors, or novelists, have had enormous influences on their writing. For me those influences range from Dostoyevsky to Fitzgerald, from Pablo Neruda to Bob Dylan. Sometimes a poet can have an influence on my fiction, and sometimes a novelist can have an influence on my short fiction. But for many years there has been something else, something extraordinary, something you don’t have to buy, something that is right there all of the time like a 24-hour a day classroom that is always at your disposal. (more…)
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