Fictionaut Blog

T.C. Boyle (The Human Fly, Talk Talk, The Women) kicks off Line Breaks, a new regular feature in which accomplished authors introduce and share their first published stories with the Fictionaut community. You can read “The OD & Hepatitis RR or Bust,” originally published in North American Review in 1972, on Fictionaut.
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Recently:
   Checking In With Monkeybicycle
   Fictionaut Five: Michael Martone
   Luna Digest, 11/24

In Indie Fiction, Monkeybicycle is sort of like the cool older popular boy to me but if the cool older boy were cool because he was full of integrity, heart, hard work, taste, solidarity, un-bad-way charm and just being good.

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Recently:
   Fictionaut Five: Michael Martone
   Luna Digest, 11/24

Michael Martone was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and grew up there. As Fort Wayne was the site of, at least, nine forts (three each of French, British, and American fortifications, not to mention fortified villages of the Shawnee and Miami tribes), there was fostered in Martone a keen attraction to walls, fences, barriers of all kinds…

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Recently:
   Luna Digest, 11/24
   Checking In

With Keyhole

I’ve been stumbling across some great excerpts recently from David Shields’s upcoming book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (a book previously mentioned/excerpted already on this blog by Shields himself, “David Shields: Reality Hunger“). Keep reading…

Also on the blog:
   Checking In With Keyhole
   Fictionaut Five: Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Peter Cole is an amazing dude and an amazing publisher who does great things for both the online and print indie community in general. I feel like this honest interview is a good time to point out that doing what we do, writing, editing, reading, publishing, is hard.Checking In With Keyhole.

Also on the blog:
   Fictionaut Five: Marie Mutsuki Mockett
   Luna Digest, 11/17
   Rediscovered Reading: Pissing in the Snow
   New: Full-Text RSS Feeds

Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born in Carmel, California to an American father and Japanese mother. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in East Asian Studies. Her essay, “Letter from a Japanese Crematorium,” was short listed for Best New American Essays 2008 and anthologized in The Best Creative Nonfiction 3. Her book Picking Bones from Ash was published in October by Graywolf Press; this is her first novel. Read Fictionaut Five with Marie Mutsuki Mockett.

Also on the blog:
   Luna Digest, 11/17
   Rediscovered Reading: Pissing in the Snow
   New: Full-Text RSS Feeds
   Checking In With PANK

Okay, the National Book Awards are not quite the Oscars—no one is likely to do a one-arm push up at them—but their 2009 awards ceremony is this Wednesday and it’s an exciting line-up this year. Archives of many authors in the running either interviewing or being interviewed are up at the BOMB Magazine website. Read more…

Also on the blog:
   Rediscovered Reading: Pissing in the Snow
   New: Full-Text RSS Feeds
   Checking In With PANK
   Fictionaut Five: Grant Bailie

Pissing in the Snow by Vance Randolph was originally published by the University of Illinois Press in 1976, and reissued as a rack-sized mass-market paperback by Bard in 1977. In the late seventies, it was a best seller. The edition I have has a roller-rink-style ring of concentric circles around the title on a yellow background. It shows sparsely forested slopes with tracks in the snow. You can buy a copy from Amazon for a penny. Read more…

Also on the blog:
   New: Full-Text RSS Feeds
   Checking In With PANK
   Fictionaut Five: Grant Bailie
   Luna Digest, 11/10
   John Minichillo: Underground, Except Out in the Wide Open

Fictionaut is now offering RSS feeds for latest stories, recommended stories, and group activity. With a feed reader of your choice, you can subscribe to a full-text feed of the latest stories as they appear on the site and recommended stories that break into the top ten. To make it easier to find busy groups, we’re now also offering a way to sort groups by most active in a given time period in the groups overview.

Also on the blog:
   Checking In With PANK
   Fictionaut Five: Grant Bailie
   Luna Digest, 11/10
   John Minichillo: Underground, Except Out in the Wide Open

Q: (Nicolle Elizabeth for Fictionaut): Hey Roxane! I see you are an editor

over at PANK and that you have a

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the Fictionaut PANK group working out so far? Are people playing nice with each

other? Group meditating?

A: Roxane

Gay (PANK): Hi Nicolle. The

href="http://www.fictionaut.com/groups/pank">Fictionaut PANK group is like that

scene in a movie where you’re outside and the sky is full of stars, and the air is still.

Read Checking in with PANK.

Also on the blog:
   Fictionaut Five: Grant Bailie
   Luna Digest, 11/10
   John Minichillo: Underground, Except Out in the Wide

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