Archive for December, 2009
Curtis Smith is the author of two novels (Sound and Noise, An Unadorned Life), a story collection (The Species Crown), and two collections of short-short stories (In the Jukebox Light, Placing Ourselves Among the Living). The coming year will see the release of his next story collection (Bad Monkey, Press 53), novel (Truth or Something Like It, Casperian Books), and his first essay collection (The Agnostic’s Prayer, Sunnyoutside Press). [read more]
Q (Nicolle Elizabeth for Fictionaut): The metadata in the spaceship tells me Matchbook is our most “happenin” group currently. What’s the deal here, you bribing people?
A (Edward Mullany): We’re excited about the way Fictionaut is establishing itself as a place for both writers and groups of writers to read and discuss literature in an atmosphere that is positive and serious. [read more]
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Fictionaut Five: Matt Bell
Luna Digest, 12/22
Line Breaks: “Fragment from an Untelevised Revolution” by Rick Moody
Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, a fiction collection forthcoming in Fall 2010 from Keyhole Press, as well as The Collectors, a novella, and How the Broken Lead the Blind, a chapbook of short fiction. His fiction has been published or is upcoming in Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, Willow Springs, Gulf Coast, and many other magazines. He is also the editor of The Collagist and can be found online at www.mdbell.com. [read
more]
Recently:
Luna Digest, 12/22
Line Breaks: “Fragment from
an Untelevised Revolution” by Rick Moody
Checking in with Prick of the Spindle
Luna Digest is taking a break for the holiday week, and so, in the spirit of things, I’m instead posting this strange Christmas card by Etgar Keret that I received by email today from Electric Literature.
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Recently:
Line Breaks: “Fragment from an Untelevised Revolution” by Rick Moody
Checking in with Prick of the Spindle
Fictionaut Five: Bob Eckstein
Luna Digest, 12/15
So I asked Rick Moody to contribute a story to Fictionaut. Maybe his first published story, for Line Breaks. And he said, does it have to be my first? How about my third? [read more]
Recently:
Checking in with Prick of the Spindle
Fictionaut Five: Bob Eckstein
Luna Digest, 12/15
“The little guys have to get started somehow. From day one, I’ve wanted the publication to reflect content that ignores names and biographies and looks instead at quality. When I read submissions, I jump straight to the content and read the bio afterwards. What good is having a journal that publishes only big names, only to promote them further? There is plenty of excellent writing out there from writers no one has ever heard of. And for anyone who looks down their nose and asks who those people are, I would respond that they are the potential future of literature.” [read more]
I first met Bob Eckstein through Fictionaut and it was curiosity at first sight, quickly making him my wedding planner for my virtual Facebook wedding. But he’s today’s subject for Fictionaut Five because he is the world’s only snowman expert, author of the popular book, The History of the Snowman and a cartoonist for The New Yorker. [read
more]
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Luna Digest, 12/15
Checking in with Baltimore Juggernaut
Line Breaks: “One-Way Ticket” by Antonya
Nelson
Sam Ruddick has a riveting new article up at Luna Park on the new (or fairly new) issue of Versal, an English-language lit mag from Amsterdam. More than simply writing a magazine review, Ruddick uses pieces from the issue to explore how words function in literature and what it is that draws us to melancholy narratives. [read more]
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Checking in with Baltimore Juggernaut
Line Breaks: “One-Way Ticket” by Antonya Nelson
Fictionaut Five: Jim Hanas
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I once read with some of the Baltimore literary crew on a tour with Dogzplot at the Jersey Shore. It was a ton of fun and meant a lot. Interviewing Justin Sirois for this week’s column got me feeling sappy, which is hard to do.
Recently:
Line Breaks: “One-Way Ticket” by Antonya Nelson
Fictionaut Five: Jim Hanas
Luna Digest, 12/8
This story gets the prize for Hardest Working Story I Ever Wrote. First, it got me into grad school at the University of Arizona. Next it was the first submission in my first-ever grad workshop. One of the other students in the class circled every single instance of “to be” verbs that I used on the first page of the manuscript, a mistake I never made again, and my first clear lesson on how valuable graduate school was going to be to me. This story then went on to win a student contest, which led to my first public reading (with Leslie Marmon Silko, a totally intimidating experience). [read more]
Recently:
Fictionaut Five: Jim Hanas
Luna Digest, 12/8
Checking in with Significant Objects
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