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The books that I feel closer to are the ones that are part of my existence in an almost biological way. The paper of their pages has become my flesh. [Read more]

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   Luna Digest, 3/30
   Line Breaks: “My Date with Satan” by Stacey Richter

Possibly the most original (and somewhat strange) news to come from the lit mag world in a while: the museum guards at the Metropolitan Museum of Art began a literary magazine, Sw!pe. [Read more]

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   Line Breaks: “My Date with Satan” by Stacey Richter
   Fictionaut Five: Laura Ellen Scott

“My Date with Satan” was originally published in The Greensboro Review in 1997. I was 31 when the story was accepted, my first ever, and for a few days I was thrilled. Finally! [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Laura Ellen Scott
   Luna Digest, 3/23
   Checking in with April Fools Day Challenge

By Fictionaut standards this is a long story. It glows rather than flashes, but

illuminates nevertheless. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Five: Laura Ellen Scott
   Luna Digest, 3/23
   Checking in with April Fools Day Challenge

Mom says I was copying words from the dictionary, trying to write a book before I could read. That’s pretty arrogant. [Read

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   Luna Digest, 3/23
   Checking in with April Fools Day

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   New & Noteworthy: Ginnah Howard

Perhaps the most interesting single thing happening in lit mag publishing is the incorporation of videos with short fiction—either as trailers, teasers, or incorporated with entire texts. And I think the most interesting and productive activity in this area is begin done by Electric Literature, primarily with their short story trailers and single sentence animation videos. [Read more]

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   New & Noteworthy: Ginnah Howard

April Fool’s Day means that all rules and bets are off. Isn’t that the point of the day to begin with? [Read more]

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   New & Noteworthy: Ginnah Howard
   Fictionaut Five: Gloria Mindock
   Luna Digest, 3/16

Ginna Howard’s novel Night Navigation, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, is now available in paperback. [Read more]

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   Luna Digest, 3/16
   Fictionaut Faves, 3/15
   Checking In With Metazen

In the early 1980’s I worked with El Salvadoran refugees. They fled the civil war in El Salvador which lasted from 1980-1992. They shared with me what was happening in their country and the atrocities committed. [Read more]

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   Fictionaut Faves, 3/15
   Checking In With Metazen

Mary Miller edits the new flash fiction issue of Ekleksographia, with work by Jeff Landon, Claudia Smith, Kim Chinquee, and many other talents of the form. [

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