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Here are the guidelines from Big Fiction: The 2014 Knickerbocker Prize opens December 15 First- and second-place entries will receive $500 / $250 and publication in our contest issue. David James Poissant, author of The Heaven of Animals (Simon & Schuster, 2014), will judge. GENERAL CONTEST RULES: Submit your entry online between December 15, 2013 – March…
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You can read Michael Bourne’s intelligent assessment here, along with all the comments.
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2000+ WRITERS SINCE 2002 Monday, 2/24 BookCourt 7pm The Sackett Street Writers’ Reading Series presents Molly Rose Quinn, poet & Sackett Street instructor Ivy Pochoda (Visitation Street, a novel) Jason Porter (Why Are You So Sad? a novel) Howard Feinstein (Fire on the Bayou, a memoir) BookCourt, 163 Court St. (btwn Pacific & Dean), Brooklyn The event is FREE and open to the public.…
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Anis Shivani interviews Raymond Hammond, editor of New York Quarterly, on what’s wrong with the current poetry landscape and how to remedy it, in The Review Review. The secrets: Read poetry from the classics to the present; and continue learning, always; be patient, and write to get better, not just to be published, he says. He’s…
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Susan Cheever’s new biography on E.E. Cummings seems like a fascinating read. Check out this excerpt published in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, “The Prince of Patchin Place.” I was riveted, reading it, especially this: As we turned out of the school’s genteel and leafy driveway and down the hill to Route 9, headed…
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I think I agree with all of these. The Stones, U2, The Who, The Beach Boys are all too damn old. Others on the list aren’t old, but their music is terrible. I’d add Metallica.
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The Derangers are out, and the ByzanTones are now on the bill. FLESH is still on at midnight headlining.
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Nicolle Elizabeth has a nice interview on The Believer blog with Summer Brennan, who writes for the U.N. I often wonder if working as a writer/editor is detracting from my creativity. For her, it’s not the case at all. Here’s an excerpt: The thing that is not different in my writing across the board, be it…
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I read this on The Story Prize blog after seeing it on The Outlet blog. Gurganus’ points about conciseness in fiction in these hectic times are hard to argue with. The novella may be the most perfect form of literary art in the 2010s. But I think it always has been, and he makes that…
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Who murdered professor Eric Davenport? That’s the question Detective Harsley attempts to answer in this murder/mystery/satire on campus life by Melvin Jules Bukiet’s 13 Sarah Lawrence College writing workshop students. Was it Davenport’s student and lover, Grace Montoya? Was it someone else in the faculty? The administration? His gorgeous wife and former student, Ophelia? And…
