I want to thank Jonathan Cardew up front for being great in dealing with me on getting a couple stories in shape for Connotation Press's May 2017 issue. He's been doing a remarkable job there at CP as fiction editor and I'm sure we'll see more great work in the coming months.
That said, I have two stories - "Oldbones" and "Persistence" - published at CP this month. The entire issue offers a lot of solid work so cruise around and give it a read.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Sunday, May 14, 2017
A Good Poetry Week
I had some poems published this past week at Fluland and RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread. Check them out, if you'd like.
Fluland - Rain in Gutters, a Lectus, Forty Year's Mind, and Things to Fix with a Hammer
RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread - Apologue, Bellwether Eye, and Gig Night
Fluland - Rain in Gutters, a Lectus, Forty Year's Mind, and Things to Fix with a Hammer
RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread - Apologue, Bellwether Eye, and Gig Night
Friday, May 12, 2017
Thursday, May 11, 2017
Relax Again, It's a Reading Roundup, Again
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| Cause it's my childhood and warm and wonderful. |
Here is some work worth checking out. Well worth checking out.
On Beauty and Other Poems by Olivia Marwdig @ Vending Machine Press
Kept by Meredith Alling & Agam Neiman @ 7X7
Three Poems by Howie Good @ RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread
In the Country of the Broken by David Roden @ gobbet
Hungry by Nasreen Khan @ Anti-Heroin Chic
Storm Girls by Cathy Ulrich @ Fair Folk
The House That Jack Built by John Madera @ Conjunctions
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Fluland Is the Name of a Lit Journal
I'm sending poetry out to some journals lately and getting good news. I like that. In fact, I'm so into poetry right now that I may not be able to stick to my plan of focusing on long fiction for the next several months. I need Russell Edson. I need James Tate. I need Francis Ponge. I need prose poetry. As Edson says, I'm a little prose poet. The form just feels comfortable for me. I've always looked at writing on a sentence level and images and the unspoken or unspeakable. The narrative has always been hardly more than the structure that enabled me to lay down these sick phrases, etc.
A few days ago I had four poems accepted at the lit journal Fluland. I saw a friend's piece there a couple weeks back or something like that and checked out the rest of the journal. It's all kitschy and odd and publishes all different kinds of innovative work including comics and such. A place like that draws me in. The different and strange always has had that effect on me and that makes me wonder how in the world I wrote realism for so long. Not to say I won't write more realism at some point (although I seriously don't see me doing it) but just that I can't see how I did so for so long when my interests are in the fantastic. Oh well, only I really care.
So yep, Fluland. So I sent them four the innovative poems. Side Note: I use the word innovative not as a brag sort of thing but because I dislike the term experimental fiction or poetry. It implies possible failure. An experiment can go wrong. Innovation is simply moving past the normal borders in my mind. I prefer the moving past borders option. Yep. So they took four of my poems. One called "a Lectus" that deals with my dad; one called "Forty's Year Mind" that is about Nabokov's death; one titled "Things to Fix With a Hammer" that is about exactly what it says and features some clip art; and a poem called "Rain in Gutters" that is, yep, about rain in gutters. Well, and some other stuff.
This is the first time a journal has accepted a bundle of my poems so I'm excited. I mean Fluland isn't The Paris Review and.....isn't that awesome! I'm serious. I want more journals like Fluland around. This is where the real innovation in poetry and prose is happening. We all know this.
I'm not sure when the poems will appear (I was told when they were published I would be contacted). I'll post here when they are live.
A few days ago I had four poems accepted at the lit journal Fluland. I saw a friend's piece there a couple weeks back or something like that and checked out the rest of the journal. It's all kitschy and odd and publishes all different kinds of innovative work including comics and such. A place like that draws me in. The different and strange always has had that effect on me and that makes me wonder how in the world I wrote realism for so long. Not to say I won't write more realism at some point (although I seriously don't see me doing it) but just that I can't see how I did so for so long when my interests are in the fantastic. Oh well, only I really care.
So yep, Fluland. So I sent them four the innovative poems. Side Note: I use the word innovative not as a brag sort of thing but because I dislike the term experimental fiction or poetry. It implies possible failure. An experiment can go wrong. Innovation is simply moving past the normal borders in my mind. I prefer the moving past borders option. Yep. So they took four of my poems. One called "a Lectus" that deals with my dad; one called "Forty's Year Mind" that is about Nabokov's death; one titled "Things to Fix With a Hammer" that is about exactly what it says and features some clip art; and a poem called "Rain in Gutters" that is, yep, about rain in gutters. Well, and some other stuff.
This is the first time a journal has accepted a bundle of my poems so I'm excited. I mean Fluland isn't The Paris Review and.....isn't that awesome! I'm serious. I want more journals like Fluland around. This is where the real innovation in poetry and prose is happening. We all know this.
I'm not sure when the poems will appear (I was told when they were published I would be contacted). I'll post here when they are live.
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Duotrope Editor Interview for The Airgonaut
Some of you may know that I edit the online journal The Airgonaut; some of you may not know this. If you don't, then pay no mind to what I'm posting here this morning. No worries. If you do, then here is an interview at Duotrope I took part in about The Airgonaut. I basically answered a series of stock questions about things ranging from what I look for in a submission to who are some writers I like. Things such as that. I will say if you're planning on sending something my way there then this would be a benefit to you if you're not already familiar with the journal.
Monday, May 8, 2017
There Are No Prizes
"Thirty-one years old. There are no prizes."
Yes, Mr. Ondaatje. I hear you, sensei. But I'm still probably going to make a run for the Calvino. I mean if it was named after just about another other author I'd be able to pass it up right now. But I'm writing Calvino influenced work these days (or had have been the past several months, although that's about to change for a bit). I've also been reading Calvino like a madman. I've been basically trying to take in everything about him and Borges that I can almost as if by osmosis. And I started doing this much much before I learned there was even such a thing as a Calvino Prize. Or that it was given out by the University of Louisville, where I basically went to grad school. Or that someone I actually know (Ryan Ridge) won it last year. Now that's a series of confluences for you. So basically I can't resist. Wish me luck or don't. Either way I'm going to be dropping a $25 entry fee for nothing, as I will not win. I know this because Tyler knows this.
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Refocusing on longer stories for now
For the next few months I'm going to be working on some longer stories set in Appalachia but having nothing to do with Appalachia per se. Reading Moshfegh has me kickstarted back to writing about characters. Keeping the focus directly on them and what they want. I've missed that while writing other material since September of last year. I have starts for about ten or so stories like this so hopefully I'll emerge with some decent work when this is all said and done. Wish me luck.
Another Ottessa Moshfegh Post
Yep, another one. Because you can't get enough Ottessa Moshfegh in your life.
I'm reading Eileen now (the book she admits was written along a familiar paradigm in order to make money). Yes, to sell books. I absolutely love that she says this without any shame, for she should feel none. What's wrong with writing to sell a book? Not every endeavor we make as writers has to be Van Gogh-like in its unappreciated genius and obscure innovation.
Moshfegh comes across as completely real to me, at least in the interviews of hers I've read. Her interview with Luke Goebel in whatever place it was I read it was what led me to read her most recent book, the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Those stories were written in such a pitch as I've never encountered before in fiction. I didn't think that was still possible today. And there's nothing really flashy about them that makes them so good. It's mostly how she tells a story - like she starts from inside the characters and makes her way out to you so that by the time her story is told it's like you've lived it along with the characters and her. It's a subtle talent, and a beautiful one.
Yesterday I ran across a guest post by her that I'm surely going to share here now. It was published at The Masters Review and is titled "How to Shit." Seriously, how amazing great is that? she talks a lot about shit, sort of. She talks about things in only the way she is able to talk about things. Have a look. Just follow the below linked title.
I'm reading Eileen now (the book she admits was written along a familiar paradigm in order to make money). Yes, to sell books. I absolutely love that she says this without any shame, for she should feel none. What's wrong with writing to sell a book? Not every endeavor we make as writers has to be Van Gogh-like in its unappreciated genius and obscure innovation.
Moshfegh comes across as completely real to me, at least in the interviews of hers I've read. Her interview with Luke Goebel in whatever place it was I read it was what led me to read her most recent book, the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Those stories were written in such a pitch as I've never encountered before in fiction. I didn't think that was still possible today. And there's nothing really flashy about them that makes them so good. It's mostly how she tells a story - like she starts from inside the characters and makes her way out to you so that by the time her story is told it's like you've lived it along with the characters and her. It's a subtle talent, and a beautiful one.
Yesterday I ran across a guest post by her that I'm surely going to share here now. It was published at The Masters Review and is titled "How to Shit." Seriously, how amazing great is that? she talks a lot about shit, sort of. She talks about things in only the way she is able to talk about things. Have a look. Just follow the below linked title.
THE MASTERS REVIEW - "How to Shit" by Ottessa Moshfegh
Friday, May 5, 2017
Reading log from 2014 to present
2017
1. Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
2. The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
3. Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney
4. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
5. Saw Strokes My Father Taught Me by G. Arthur Brown
6. Root and Shoot by Nathan Leslie
7. United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas
8. Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral
9. Visions by Troy James Weaver
10. Naked Friends by Justin Grimbol
11. Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox by Lee Klein
12. Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
13. Nothing is Strange by Mike Russell
14. Bluets by Maggie Nelson
15. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by Tim Earley
16. Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
17. On Broad Sound by Rusty Barnes
18. The Second Sex by Michael Robbins
19. Whim Man Mammom by Abraham Smith
20. EOB: Earth Out of Balance by John Minichillo
21. Paris Blues by Charles Baudelaire
22. The Devil’s Trill by Ron Houchin
23. Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess
24. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
25. Jorges Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges
26. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
27. Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh
28. Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
29. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
30. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
31. The Cinammon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
32. The Lucky Body by Kyle Coma-Thompson
33. Best Experimental Writing 2014 edited by Cole Swenson
2016
1. Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young
2. Best Small Fictions 2015 edited by Tara L. Masih and Robert Olen Butler
3. The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction edited by Tara L. Masih
4. Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons by Tara Laskowski
5. Hint Fiction edited by Robert Smartwood
6. Metal Gear Solid by Ashley and Anthony Burch
7. The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
8. Micro Fiction edited by Jerome Stern
9. Rashomon and other Stores by Ryünosuke Akutagawa
10. Severance by Robert Olen Butler
11. Slade House by David Mitchell
12. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthleme by Tracy Daughtery
13. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
14. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 guest edited by Guillermo del Toro
15. Studies in Hybrid Morphology by Matt Tompkins
16. Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories edited by James Thomas
17. A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
18. Appalachian Elegy by bell hooks
19. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
20. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
21. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
22. Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert
23. The Humble Assessment by Kris Saknussemm
24. Gil the Nihilist: A Sitcom by Sean Kilpatrick
25. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
26. Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations by Mónica Maristain
27. Underworld by Don DeLillo
28. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
29. Tables Without Chairs by Brian Alan Ellis and Bud Smith
30. The Tent by Margaret Atwood
31. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
32. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
33. Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
34. A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
35. Souvenirs and Other Stories by Matt Tompkins
36. In Case We Die edited by Aaron Dietz and Bud Smith
37. The Color Master by Aimee Bender
38. Split Rail by Mark Welborn
39. Relax, You’re Going to Die by Tai Sheridan
40. Hoopty Time Machines by Christopher DeWan
41. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
42. Marigold by Troy James Weaver
43. The Insufferable Goucho by Roberto Bolaño
44. Light Boxes by Shane Jones
45. Best Small Fictions 2016 edited by Tara L. Masih and Stuart Dybek
46. He Stopped Loving Her Today: George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time by Jack Isenhour
47. The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret
48. Jeff Bridges by Donora Hillard
49. 13 by David Tomaloff
50. Failing This by Alec Niedenthal
51. Kitty by Lindsay Hunter
52. The Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox
53. I’ll Give You Something to Cry About by Corey Mesler
54. Our Hearts Are Power Ballads by J. Bradley
55. Daniel Fights a Hurricane by Shane Jones
56. Philip K. Dick: The Last Interviews and Other Conversations
57. The Equation of Constants by b.l. pawelek
58. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
59. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
60. A Death in the Family by James Agee
61. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
62. Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
63. Horror Film Poems by Christoph Paul
64. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
65. My Friend Ken Harvey by Barrett Warner
66. Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
67. Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Cordoba Sosa
68. Not Quite So Stories by David S. Atkinson
2015
1. Tampa by Alissa Nutting
2. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
3. The Baltimore Atrocities by John Dermot Woods
4. Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill
5. Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy
6. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
7. Sinners of Sanction County by Charles Dodd White
8. Hell and Ohio by Chris Holbrook
9. The Cove by Ron Rash
10. Burning Bright by Ron Rash
11. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
12. Straight to Hell and Astrology by Danielle Etienne
13. American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
14. Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
15. Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
16. Gap Greek by Robert Morgan
17. Witchita Stories by Troy James Weaver
18. Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce
19. Big World by Mary Miller
20. The National Virginity Pledge by Barry Graham
21. When You Cross That Line by Sam Slaughter
22. Fourteen Stories and None of Them Are Yours by Luke B. Goebel
23. Gutshot by Amelia Gray
24. The Marble Orchard by Alex Taylor
25. Winterswim by Ryan W. Bradley
26. Haints Stay by Colin Winnette
27. Trampoline by Robert Gipe
28. In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
29. Blurb by Ravi Mangla
30. Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen
31. Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon by Cameron Pierce
32. The Way the World Is by Michael Henson
33. Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean edited by Karen Salyer McElmurray and Adrian Blevins
34. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
35. The Meadow by James Galvin
36. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
37. Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
38. Beloved by Toni Morrison
39. Ridgerunner by Rusty Barnes
40. Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
41. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
42. The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
43. The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes
44. Is That You, John Wayne by Scott Garson
45. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
46. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
47. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
48. The Trial by Franz Kafka
49. The Stranger by Albert Camus
50. The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
51. V by Thomas Pynchon
52. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
53. Lucky Alan and other Stories by Jonathan Lethem
54. Suddenly, a Knock On the Door by Etgar Keret
55. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
56. Taipei by Tao Lin
2014
1. Nightwork by Christina Schutt
2. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
3. Tenth of December by George Saunders
4. Galaga by Michael Kimball
5. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
6. Hill William by Scott McClanahan
7. Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt
8. Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones
9. Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan
10. The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell
11. The Uncertainty Principle by Rob McLennan
12. The Day the Cloud Stood Still by Patrick Trotti
13. In the Season of Blood and Gold by Taylor Brown
14. Billie the Bull by xTx
15. Pathologies by William Walsh
16. Baptism and Dogs by B.L. Tucker
17. The Least of My Scars by Stephen Graham Jones
18. Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler
19. The Fun We’ve Had by Michael Seidlinger
20. Backswing by Aaron Burch
21. Brown Dog by Jim Harrison
22. Alone with Other People by Gabby Bess
23. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
24. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
25. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
26. Panic, USA by Nate Slawson
27. Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
28. A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’ Conner
29. Jeff, One Lonely Guy by Jeff Ragsdale
30. Baby Babe by Ana Carrete
31. Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
32. I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying by Matthew Salesses
33. I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic by Jamie Iredell
34. Colony Collapse by J.A. Tyler
35. Low Down Death Right Easy by J. David Osborne
36. Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz
37. My Friend Ken Harvey by Barrett Warner
38. Witch Piss by Sam Pink
39. The Black Dog Eats the City by Chris Kelso
40. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
41. Addicts and Basements by Robert Vaughan
42. The Tommy Plans by Cooper Reener
43. Bark by Lorrie Moore
44. Drinking Until Morning by Justin Grimbol
45. High as the Horse’s Bridle by Scott Cheshire
46. Dry by Augusten Burroughs
47. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
48. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
49. My Salinger Years by Joanna Rakoff
50. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max
51. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
52. Annihilation by Jeff VandeMeer
53. Lost in Space by Ben Tanzer
54. King Shit by Brian Alan Ellis
55. 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living by Brian Alan Ellis
56. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
57. Misadventure by Nicholas Grider
1. Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
2. The Last Illusion by Porochista Khakpour
3. Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney
4. The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
5. Saw Strokes My Father Taught Me by G. Arthur Brown
6. Root and Shoot by Nathan Leslie
7. United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas
8. Cartoons in the Suicide Forest by Leza Cantoral
9. Visions by Troy James Weaver
10. Naked Friends by Justin Grimbol
11. Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck: Rejection Letters from the Eyeshot Outbox by Lee Klein
12. Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
13. Nothing is Strange by Mike Russell
14. Bluets by Maggie Nelson
15. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery by Tim Earley
16. Alien vs. Predator by Michael Robbins
17. On Broad Sound by Rusty Barnes
18. The Second Sex by Michael Robbins
19. Whim Man Mammom by Abraham Smith
20. EOB: Earth Out of Balance by John Minichillo
21. Paris Blues by Charles Baudelaire
22. The Devil’s Trill by Ron Houchin
23. Tinderbox Lawn by Carol Guess
24. Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
25. Jorges Luis Borges: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Jorge Luis Borges
26. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
27. Homesick for Another World: Stories by Ottessa Moshfegh
28. Dreamtigers by Jorge Luis Borges
29. Plainwater: Essays and Poetry by Anne Carson
30. The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory by Jorge Luis Borges
31. The Cinammon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
32. The Lucky Body by Kyle Coma-Thompson
33. Best Experimental Writing 2014 edited by Cole Swenson
2016
1. Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young
2. Best Small Fictions 2015 edited by Tara L. Masih and Robert Olen Butler
3. The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction edited by Tara L. Masih
4. Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons by Tara Laskowski
5. Hint Fiction edited by Robert Smartwood
6. Metal Gear Solid by Ashley and Anthony Burch
7. The Nimrod Flipout by Etgar Keret
8. Micro Fiction edited by Jerome Stern
9. Rashomon and other Stores by Ryünosuke Akutagawa
10. Severance by Robert Olen Butler
11. Slade House by David Mitchell
12. Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthleme by Tracy Daughtery
13. If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
14. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 guest edited by Guillermo del Toro
15. Studies in Hybrid Morphology by Matt Tompkins
16. Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories edited by James Thomas
17. A Wild Swan and Other Tales by Michael Cunningham
18. Appalachian Elegy by bell hooks
19. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
20. The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
21. There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales
by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
22. Basal Ganglia by Matthew Revert
23. The Humble Assessment by Kris Saknussemm
24. Gil the Nihilist: A Sitcom by Sean Kilpatrick
25. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
26. Bolaño: A Biography in Conversations by Mónica Maristain
27. Underworld by Don DeLillo
28. The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges
29. Tables Without Chairs by Brian Alan Ellis and Bud Smith
30. The Tent by Margaret Atwood
31. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
32. The Quiet American by Graham Greene
33. Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
34. A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
35. Souvenirs and Other Stories by Matt Tompkins
36. In Case We Die edited by Aaron Dietz and Bud Smith
37. The Color Master by Aimee Bender
38. Split Rail by Mark Welborn
39. Relax, You’re Going to Die by Tai Sheridan
40. Hoopty Time Machines by Christopher DeWan
41. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
42. Marigold by Troy James Weaver
43. The Insufferable Goucho by Roberto Bolaño
44. Light Boxes by Shane Jones
45. Best Small Fictions 2016 edited by Tara L. Masih and Stuart Dybek
46. He Stopped Loving Her Today: George Jones, Billy Sherrill, and the Pretty-Much Totally True Story of the Making of the Greatest Country Record of All Time by Jack Isenhour
47. The Girl on the Fridge by Etgar Keret
48. Jeff Bridges by Donora Hillard
49. 13 by David Tomaloff
50. Failing This by Alec Niedenthal
51. Kitty by Lindsay Hunter
52. The Map of the System of Human Knowledge by James Tadd Adcox
53. I’ll Give You Something to Cry About by Corey Mesler
54. Our Hearts Are Power Ballads by J. Bradley
55. Daniel Fights a Hurricane by Shane Jones
56. Philip K. Dick: The Last Interviews and Other Conversations
57. The Equation of Constants by b.l. pawelek
58. Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
59. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus
60. A Death in the Family by James Agee
61. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
62. Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
63. Horror Film Poems by Christoph Paul
64. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
65. My Friend Ken Harvey by Barrett Warner
66. Museum of the Weird by Amelia Gray
67. Two Hundred and One Miniature Tales by Alejandro Cordoba Sosa
68. Not Quite So Stories by David S. Atkinson
2015
1. Tampa by Alissa Nutting
2. Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson
3. The Baltimore Atrocities by John Dermot Woods
4. Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill
5. Where All Light Tends To Go by David Joy
6. Nothing Gold Can Stay by Ron Rash
7. Sinners of Sanction County by Charles Dodd White
8. Hell and Ohio by Chris Holbrook
9. The Cove by Ron Rash
10. Burning Bright by Ron Rash
11. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
12. Straight to Hell and Astrology by Danielle Etienne
13. American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell
14. Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill
15. Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
16. Gap Greek by Robert Morgan
17. Witchita Stories by Troy James Weaver
18. Hall of Small Mammals by Thomas Pierce
19. Big World by Mary Miller
20. The National Virginity Pledge by Barry Graham
21. When You Cross That Line by Sam Slaughter
22. Fourteen Stories and None of Them Are Yours by Luke B. Goebel
23. Gutshot by Amelia Gray
24. The Marble Orchard by Alex Taylor
25. Winterswim by Ryan W. Bradley
26. Haints Stay by Colin Winnette
27. Trampoline by Robert Gipe
28. In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell
29. Blurb by Ravi Mangla
30. Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History by Phong Nguyen
31. Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon by Cameron Pierce
32. The Way the World Is by Michael Henson
33. Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean edited by Karen Salyer McElmurray and Adrian Blevins
34. Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
35. The Meadow by James Galvin
36. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
37. Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
38. Beloved by Toni Morrison
39. Ridgerunner by Rusty Barnes
40. Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish
41. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
42. The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
43. The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Nicholas Rombes
44. Is That You, John Wayne by Scott Garson
45. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
46. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders
47. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
48. The Trial by Franz Kafka
49. The Stranger by Albert Camus
50. The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel
51. V by Thomas Pynchon
52. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
53. Lucky Alan and other Stories by Jonathan Lethem
54. Suddenly, a Knock On the Door by Etgar Keret
55. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
56. Taipei by Tao Lin
2014
1. Nightwork by Christina Schutt
2. Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
3. Tenth of December by George Saunders
4. Galaga by Michael Kimball
5. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
6. Hill William by Scott McClanahan
7. Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt
8. Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones
9. Crapalachia by Scott McClanahan
10. The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell
11. The Uncertainty Principle by Rob McLennan
12. The Day the Cloud Stood Still by Patrick Trotti
13. In the Season of Blood and Gold by Taylor Brown
14. Billie the Bull by xTx
15. Pathologies by William Walsh
16. Baptism and Dogs by B.L. Tucker
17. The Least of My Scars by Stephen Graham Jones
18. Above All Men by Eric Shonkwiler
19. The Fun We’ve Had by Michael Seidlinger
20. Backswing by Aaron Burch
21. Brown Dog by Jim Harrison
22. Alone with Other People by Gabby Bess
23. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
24. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
25. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
26. Panic, USA by Nate Slawson
27. Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
28. A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O’ Conner
29. Jeff, One Lonely Guy by Jeff Ragsdale
30. Baby Babe by Ana Carrete
31. Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
32. I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying by Matthew Salesses
33. I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic by Jamie Iredell
34. Colony Collapse by J.A. Tyler
35. Low Down Death Right Easy by J. David Osborne
36. Excavation by Wendy C. Ortiz
37. My Friend Ken Harvey by Barrett Warner
38. Witch Piss by Sam Pink
39. The Black Dog Eats the City by Chris Kelso
40. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
41. Addicts and Basements by Robert Vaughan
42. The Tommy Plans by Cooper Reener
43. Bark by Lorrie Moore
44. Drinking Until Morning by Justin Grimbol
45. High as the Horse’s Bridle by Scott Cheshire
46. Dry by Augusten Burroughs
47. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata
48. St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
49. My Salinger Years by Joanna Rakoff
50. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max
51. Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle
52. Annihilation by Jeff VandeMeer
53. Lost in Space by Ben Tanzer
54. King Shit by Brian Alan Ellis
55. 33 Fragments of Sick-Sad Living by Brian Alan Ellis
56. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
57. Misadventure by Nicholas Grider
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Relax, It's a Mini-Roundup
A few pieces I've come across over the past couple weeks that I shared on social media but am pretty sure didn't really make it to a lot of people's feeds because I probably suck, which is a shame, so I'm sharing them again here as a whole.
The Fruiting Body of the Mycelium by Becca Borawski Jenkins @ The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
Birthplace of the Saints (comic) by Kevin Reilly @ The Nashville Review
Poems by Howie Good @ Queen Mob's Teahouse
The Mall We Called Commas by A.E. Weisgerber @ Five 2 One Magazine
The Fruiting Body of the Mycelium by Becca Borawski Jenkins @ The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
Birthplace of the Saints (comic) by Kevin Reilly @ The Nashville Review
Poems by Howie Good @ Queen Mob's Teahouse
The Mall We Called Commas by A.E. Weisgerber @ Five 2 One Magazine
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